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Broadway Melody of 1936 9) Roberta 10) Anna Karenina...
...Anna M. Pabst, 39, bacteriologist with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, was to read a paper at the New York meeting proving the impossibility of testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...
...Washington's National Theatre one night last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt took Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. to see Helen Hayes as Victoria Regina. So charmed was Mrs. Roosevelt by Actress Hayes' performance that when the play ended, she stood up in her box, clapped for five curtain calls. Next day she had Miss Hayes in to the White House for luncheon and at 3 p. m. Actress Hayes hurried back to her hotel suite in high excitement, canceled half a dozen appointments, summoned a beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special...
...wife, Anna Hauptmann; his prosecutor, David T. Wilentz; his defense counsel, Edward J. Reilly, and New Jersey's official executioner, Robert Elliott, each has 13 letters in his name...
...drunkards who had been on probation in charge of their wives or other kin since Sept. 1. When Bill McNulty said, "I haven't touched a drop," his wife cried, "Oh, judge, he's lying to you." Sentence: 60 days. Of John Cpywiak, his wife Anna said, "He's been out of work for nine years. He spent my $500 savings on booze. Then he came home and robbed the baby's bank. I don't want him, judge. He won't lay off it." Sentence: three months. When Frank Fenlon asked for clemency...