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...afternoon very drowsy and draped self on davenport, listening to the radio. Three minutes of Benny - Goodman - Hal - Kemp - Bing - Crosby - Fats - Waller - Shep - Fields - and - his ripplingrhythm - Muzzy - Muzzolino - Mussolini - whatever - it - is. Three minutes of spiel - MEN! smoke Webster - the All-American cigar . . . . The third race at Hialeah . . .--Have you tried Carter's Little Liver Pills...
Unlike William Randolph Hearst who never sells a paper, Scripps-Howard has jettisoned dailies in Baltimore, Sacramento, Terre Haute, Des Moines and Dallas. Last week new Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins lopped the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram off the Scripps-Howard chain. Founded in 1851, bought by Scripps-Howard in 1922, ailing since 1929, the Telegram was devoured by its local opposition, the stout old Youngstown Vindicator, left the city with one fat newspaper called The Youngstown Vindicator and The Youngstown Telegram...
Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...
Died. William Waller Brookhart, 3, grandson of Iowa's onetime Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart; struck by an automobile ; in Washington...
...fact that jazz was once more immensely popular in the land of its birth was illustrated last week not alone by the insane vogue of The Music Goes 'Round And Around. Black pianist Thomas ("Fats") Waller, who can swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...