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...preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran...
...story . . . did not "crop up" in Amarillo, Tex. It occurred in Wichita, Kans. The actual slapper involved was a man, not a woman as your story states. When the slappee appealed for help another woman passenger remarked that she felt like repeating the angered father's handwork...
Fleshy, flashy Ray Dumont, onetime Wichita sporting-goods dealer, is a prolific begetter of brain children. Six years ago, to stimulate his trade, he organized the country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
First tryout: next summer, when the pick of President Dumont's 70,000 sand-lot teams meet in Wichita for the national semi-pro championship...
Walter Beech is only half of Beech Aircraft. As secretary-treasurer, Olive Ann works 10-12 hours daily. When expansion plans were afoot last year, she was in a Wichita hospital having her second baby. But she had a direct hospital-plant telephone and the directors met at her bedside. Later she and two associates went to Washington, got Emil Schram to okay a $13,540,508 RFC revolving credit...