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Last week, as gaunt old John T. McCutcheon rounded out his 76th year and laid aside his crayons for good, his Injun Summer was still the most popular cartoon that ever came out of the Midwest. In recent years his crosshatched, mild-&-mellow drawings, fussy and cluttered-up by modern standards, have all but vanished from Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist, Anglophobic pages. McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health...
...dominated, looked good. For two rounds, against Eastern Champ Robert Isler, Foxworth studied his rival's tricky southpaw stance, saved his ammunition. Then, in Round 3, he fired two hard rights. The first one rocked his opponent; the second knocked him out. It was Sailor Bob's 76th consecutive...
...diseased leg, marveled as the old man clung to life, week after week. To Spaniards who came to see him the old warrior talked bravely of a restored Republic, though he knew he would play no part in Spain's future. Early one morning last week, in his 76th year, Francisco Largo Caballero closed for the last time eyes that had seen too many bad things and not enough good ones...
Breaking out into the sports limelight briefly last Monday at the 76th Sports-writers' Luncheon was Bill Bingham, peacetime head of the H. A. A., and czar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rules Committee, recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel in the army...
...reporters to its conventions unless they belonged to its American Newspaper Guild, the U.S. press would unquestionably set up a yell that could be heard in the farthest recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union, the Institute of Journalists, has never struck...