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Died. Patrick McKenna, 65, bald, bespectacled White House doorkeeper; 37 years to the day after he started ushering during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration ; of a kidney ailment; in Washington...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
With a wingspread of six to seven feet, the adult golden eagle is about the same size as the full-grown bald eagle (U. S. national emblem) but the golden eagle is fiercer and stronger. It preys mostly on small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle's favorite food is fish. The Walkers took a baby golden eagle from an eyrie in California, christened him "Caesar," trained him to fly and return like a falcon. When Caesar was fully grown, they tested his capacity load...
Upwards of a year ago tall, bald, shambling Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, onetime publisher of TIME, set out to found a new New York City newspaper, PM. Five months ago he completed the herculean job of raising $1,500,000 capital. Last week, ready to launch his paper, he had successfully whipped up an almost unprecedented amount of advance publicity. Even out of hiring a staff he got publicity: he launched a prize contest through the Museum of Modern Art to select staff artists; columnists printed gags and gossip as he picked up his staff...
...Short, bald-domed Albert Monroe Greenfield, 52, is Philadelphia's real-estate broker extraordinary. His personal fortune in 1929 was $15,000,000. The following year, along with Philadelphia banks and real estate, he tumbled deep into debt, has continued in this condition ever since. Still in business, he helps run the city Democratic machine, heads charities, is a director of the highly respectable Board of City Trusts. Among other distinctions, he is one of Jewry's few Papal Knights...