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...Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them is discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption...
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...many a California landholder this action seemed just and proper. The Sonoma County Grand Jury refused to indict. The District Attorney declined to act. Last week, however, Sonoma County learned to its astonishment that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented...
...acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...
...amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres of condemned residential property, 200 acres in all. The old Fair Park stadium became the "Cotton Bowl," and the job of being bold enough to please the hearts of Texas' heroes, and to attract...