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With all due reverence for all concerned, may I suggest the role of W. C. Fields for Mr. Herbert Hoover in any film based on the life of the former gentleman? Your picture, hat & all, in TIME, Dec. 13 [see cut], prompts this suggestion...
...champion liar of the world, for the first time since 1929, was not an American. The Burlington Liars Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...
Born. To Gretchen Eraser, 29, pert, brown-haired 1948 Olympic ski champion (first American to win an Olympic ski race, the women's special slalom), and Donald W. Fraser, 35, Vancouver, Wash. oil distributor: their first child, a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Donald Jr. Weight...
Died. James Stuart ("Rawhide Jimmy") Douglas, 80, Canadian-born father of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona mining executive and banker; in Montreal...
Thomas S. Lamont '21, an Overseer of the University, will represent the family of the late Thomas W. Lamont '92, for whom the library is named, at the ceremony in the Library's Forum Room...