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First new voice to be launched was Wisconsin-born Tenor Eyvind Laholm's (real name: Johan Edwin Johnson). Tenor Laholm had already spent 14 years making himself one of the most famed Wagnerian tenors in Germany, had won personal applause from musical Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years ago, when he became Hitler's favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped...
...liner Washington at Manhattan last week stepped a Wisconsin-born Britisher who looks more than a little like David Lloyd George: London's most famous merchant, 74-year-old H. Gordon Selfridge. To newshawks at the ship he said: "The opportunity to achieve . . . has been eliminated all over the world . . . everyone will be on salary . . . enterprise will be abandoned...
...campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper in any of my conferences. . . . Because the last two elected editors do not happen to be Wisconsin-born, the feeling has grown that they represent an eastern class-struggle point of view rather than the liberal Wisconsin tradition...
Chosen to give the lectures was Wisconsin-born Professor Sumner Huber Slichter, who at 45 commands respect from conservatives and liberals alike for his economic sagacity. In muddy shoes and a weather-stained suit, he lectures with his thick white pompadour and craggy nose bent over his desk, seems surprised when he looks up to find students present. Between classes he rushes back to his office to dictate one of the half-dozen reports, books or articles on which he works at once. Over the fireplace in his Morgan Hall office is a gaudy poster proclaiming: "Vote American Labor Party...
Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...