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...company, release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck's good friend Winfield Sheehan is production chief but where Jesse L. Lasky and others have been making independent pictures for Fox release for the last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...
...reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good generals might put down the rebellion in three years...
...private in the party, who later proved to have been an escaped murderer, pilfered food from his comrades. After the third offense Lieut. Greely had him shot. By spring all were reduced to eating shrimps and seaweed. Finally on June 22, 1884 Appeared a relief ship commanded by Captain Winfield Scott Schley, U. S. N. (who was to be a hero in the Spanish-American War 14 years later). Only one of Greely's men was strong enough to wave a feeble welcome before falling on his face. Of the original party of 25, Captain Schley found...
...Warfield, she was named Wallis after her father who died when she was three. She divorced her first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...