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...above helping his Home along with a bit of publicity, Father Flanagan broadcasts his boys' band, gets celebrities to visit the institution, among them: Tom Mix,* Admiral Byrd, Paul Whiteman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Will Rogers. With a fanfare from the local Press, Father Flanagan got up from his sick bed fortnight ago and set out for Seattle to plead with Governor Roland Hartley for Herbert Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve...
Ferde Grofe who for twelve years has worked for Jazz behind the scenes made one of his rare appearances last week out front. Ever since Jazz swept down the Barbary Coast, Ferde Grofe has been Paul Whiteman's Man Friday, anonymously scoring tunes, embroidering them until even some of the sleaziest have taken on symphonic richness. Last week in Chicago a great crowd gave him longaccumulated credit. Paul Whiteman played Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and the audience shouted approval of a smoothly syncopated sunrise and sunset, a thunderous, climactic canyon storm...
Puzzling their little White brains over problems of arithmetic, the children were assisted by Arithmetic Teacher Lovett Whiteman, a Chicago Negro. Thus imperceptibly they began to learn a fundamental Communist lesson: Reds call no race "inferior," call the black and the yellow man "comrade...
...Monster Carnera would be unable to smile at Orchestra Leader Paul Whiteman who once weighed 305 lb., is now reported to have reduced to 210. He would have been impudent if he had smiled at the late William Howard Taft who weighed 340 lb. while in the White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest...
...cylinders, dual-valve principle, four-speed transmission, hydraulic boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...