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...shares to peppery, horse-loving Cousin Hulbert Taft, who runs the paper and is one of Bob's closest chums; and all the rest to daughters, Mrs. A. S. Ingalls of Cleveland, mother of David S. Ingalls, Bob's campaign manager and right bower; and to Mrs. Anna Louise Semple, wife of a Latin instructor at Cincinnati University...
...Washington, D. C. a Guild local ignored the Board's letter, nominated Wisconsin-born, 37-year-old, brush-lipped Kenneth Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post. In Denver another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...show opens a hit, Maney can choose his spots, reserve good stories for the big papers. With a flop, veterans like Maney don't try pleading or high-pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...
...studied journalism at the University of Washington, but being stagestruck, ushered without pay in a Seattle theatre. At 21 he reached New York as the least important of Anna Held's four press agents. Subsequent ups & downs turned him into a heavily liveried doorman at the old Century Theatre, into editor of The American Angler while knowing nothing about fish. He offered his readers such advice as "keep your fly in the water, the trout don't live in trees," then resigned, "not without considerable support from the public...
Famed, scholarly, 54-year-old Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, recently began looking for a new president. Its third president, Dr. Marion Edwards Park, will retire a year from next June. Last week it became known that "prominent Bryn Mawr alumnae" want as their fourth president a certain Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...