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Working with a Republican executive is an unusual experience for Taft. Said he: "I spent eight years in the legislature of Ohio and this is my 15th year in Congress. Except for two years back in the '20s in Ohio, this is the first time that I have served under a Republican executive. I find it a novel experience...
...also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took on the job of aligning Austria's economy with Germany's rearmament plan. During...
...musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile and the twirling cane as he struts and soft-shoes around...
...deal, biggest Inland has ever made, was quite a comeback for Cy Eaton, who has been in many hot spots but has proved as durable as the phoenix. In the '20s he built a Midwest empire of steel, rubber and iron ore, only to lose control of it during the Depression. Slowly he built another, only to see it threatened three years ago, when his Otis & Co. walked out of a Kaiser-Frazer stockselling agreement, and his ex-friend Henry Kaiser won $3,000,000 in judgments (TIME, July 16, 1951). Otis filed in bankruptcy, and Kaiser began hunting...
Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...