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Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, New York City's handsome Official Greeter and Police Commissioner in years gone by, now the maestro of its 1939 World's Fair, last week sat through a curious meeting in the Fair's administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair...
Rather than let the case go to trial, Maestro Whalen last week settled with Engineer Shadgen for $45,000 cash, re-engaged him as a consultant for the Fair's duration...
...adaptable, resourceful, readily absorb and enjoy responsibility. While I could hope that Frank Capra, Walter Lippmann, Eduard Benes, Rudy Vallee, Mrs. Roosevelt, Max Reinhardt, James E. Cain, Grover Whalen, Madame Chiang Kaishek, E. Alexander Powell or James Norman Hall are in need of an aide, I am entirely unencumbered and would gladly go anywhere in the world where I could find congenial surroundings and work. I have lived abroad...
...empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although Miss Gaynor takes her mission a little too seriously and detracts from what was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek farce, the film is thoroughly enjoyable. Very nearly as good is "Time Out For Murder," in which a reporter (Michael Whalen) solves an involved but ingenious murder. Chick Chandler, as Mr. Whalen's photographer and constant companion, contributes excellent humor throughout, and Gloria Stuart, as a beautiful bill collector turned detective, gives the picture the light touch needed to put it over...
...newest publication is entitled "College Years," of which the editor is Richard W. Weissman '38, and the Harvard editorial associate Malcolm E. Jenna '40. Articles on Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, and several girls' colleges are interspersed with features about the youth movements and general phases of collegiate-ism. Grover Whalen, Aubrey Williams, and Brown president Henry Wriston are the leading authors...