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After three weeks of recess, this was a decision day. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, impressive as always, leaned forward, nodded to Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. Justice Rutledge read the Court's majority opinion-a routine case. The Chief Justice, his solid face impassive, swiftly read a brief dissent...
George Gershwin: Jazz Concert (Eddie Condon and his orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Condon's guitar gives rhythm to Jack Teagarden's fine trombone, Bobby Hackett's clean, relaxed trumpet and Singer Lee Wiley's blue do on Someone to Watch over Me and The Man I Love. Along for the ride are Condonites Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and others. Performance: good...
...went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold...
...down. When Ruppel played up Ernie Pyle's death, he was dressed down for overpublicizing "our rival" (Pyle wrote for Scripps-Howard), even though the rival was dead. And when Ruppel tossed out Hearst's dearly beloved top-of-the-page red headlines, oldtime Hearstling Robert Wiley was rushed to Chicago to "breathe more Hearst into the paper...
Died. Marshall Headle, 52, who trained U.S. Army flyers in World War I, and as successor to the late Wiley Post as Lockheed Aircraft's top test pilot tested some 300 different types of plane (including the P-38 Lightning on its maiden flight) with out once having to bail out ; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif...