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Radio listeners to a broadcast by "Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
Hard and daringly has Editor Gething tried to draw attention to his newspaper, add to its small circulation. Last month he picked on Mr. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 26). In an abusive, threatening editorial he execrated the New Yorker as an arrogant Yankee, retailed a story that Mr. Hutton had instructed his employes to drive motorboats through neighboring preserves in order to frighten ducks from them...
Last week Publisher Delacorte whipped out a new weekly called Manhattan, an about-town review and amusement guide (price 10?) aimed at the mass of subway riders who read Broadway colyumists but not the smart New Yorker. Some of its features, dealing with expensive speakeasies and night clubs, indicate an intent to show Manhattan's probable clientele how the upper crust amuses itself...
After out-Romanoffing the Romanoffs and frowning on every sort of bourgeois endeavor, Prince Mike, alias Harry Gerguson, has sold out on his numerous menage. Those who read with delight the spritely lines of Alva Johnson in The New Yorker, sketching the miraculous biography of this elegant phoney can hardly believe that Prince has gone the way of Channel swimmers and flag-pole sitters by accepting vaudeville contracts and writing his life story for the tabloids...
...country on their boat. Mike soon agreed, said he had entered via Canada. Secondary plan of the Government was to deport Mike as an alien, born in Vilna, Russia. But earliest available records of his genesis place him in a Manhattan orphanage. A film company has bought The New Yorker's recent Gerguson serial by Newshawk Alva Johnston...