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NEWS AND RELEASES. This Is Still a Democracy Department: At an FDR rally a few weeks ago, the Benny Goodman Sextet showed true sportsmanship in dedicating a number to Wendell Willkie. Tune was Gone With What Wind ... Record of the week: Woody Herman's Beat Me Daddy. Pianist Tommy Linehan...
Irish Bases. In his speech to Parliament, Prime Minister Churchill made one wistful aside which might well presage an effort, more or less drastic as circumstances may warrant, to rip a stubborn impediment from the sharp bows of the Royal Navy. That impediment is Eire.
This week appeared Home Town, Sherwood Anderson's latter-day reflections on his favorite theme. It is a book of essays, richly illustrated by Farm Security Administration photographs. Anderson now lives in Marion, Va. (pop.: 4,156), where until recently he blithely published two newspapers, one Republican, one Democratic...
Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson had never before played at Pebble Beach. But not even the sea lions put her off. In the final, before a gallery of over 1,000 that included wistful onetime Champion Patty Berg (now a professional), she ended the match on the 31st green, 6 & 5...
Son of a Presbyterian parson, "the best man I have ever known," wry-faced little John Buchan grew up in the poetry and parsimony of the Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He...