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...Michael O'Daniel, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, did not wait for a contest, went to Hollywood last fortnight, landed a Paramount contract (TIME, Aug. 14). His Pappy has still not decided whether to let him take...
...Hollywood went Michael O'Daniel, 19, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, to make his fortune with his face. After a screen test he was offered a contract by Paramount, went home in high feather to get his pappy's consent...
...view on four sides of the U. S. last week were three freshmen Governors and one postgraduate, all engaged in bitter-end battles with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record...
...Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel, radio whooper and flour salesman, last week further differentiated his new career as Governor of Texas from that of other Governors by granting to a chair-condemned murderer a 30-day reprieve for an unusual reason. Governor O'Daniel, reprieved Negro Murderer Winzell Williams, who killed a 63-year-old white dairyman, because, said the Governor, few punishments could be worse than "to see certain death staring you in the face day & night for 30 days." When Texans protested his cruelty, Governor O'Daniel explained he sought to arouse...
...Chicago Tribune's WGN gave the network its president, Wilbert E. Macfarlane. Thirty years a newspaperman, President Macfarlane is a rugged individualist of broadcasting. As advertising manager of the Tribune in 1927, he became WGN's executive head, refused to let networks dominate his station's policies. The other original partner station, WOR, gave MBS its board chairman, Alfred Justin McCosker. Breezy, back-slapping Chairman McCosker is a radio veteran among network heads. He joined WOR in 1923, became the station's director and general manager in 1926, president in 1933. A onetime newspaperman, Chairman McCosker...