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...Morton Downey who looked foolish singing "Kiss Me Goodnight''; the four black Mills brothers huddled around a spikelike amplifier, knees quivering, sounding like a trumpet, a pair of saxophones and a tuba. The actual concert, save as it benefited unemployed musicians, was unimportant. But when bald, egg-shaped Ferde Grofe came sheepishly on the platform, it was formal evidence of the Whiteman-Grofe split. There is no bad blood between them but chunky Ferde Grofe was tired of squeezing behind the scenes...
William J. Filbert was elected vice chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee, a new office created last week. Bald, stocky, with a set mouth and prominent, piercing eyes, this almost unknown officer of the Steel company stepped into a place second only to Myron Charles Taylor...
...throne of Italy immediately after the war felt the republican quakes that ran through Europe, but its foundations were renewed and strengthened when a statesman of fortune marched on Rome and assumed command of the country. Since Mussolini stepped out of the wings into the bald light of European politics Italy's King has been a handsome figure for his people to revere--for the opportunity is occasionally given them. But now they have become dissatisfied with just a King, they want an Emperor, a Holy Roman Emperor...
...called at the Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold...
...small group of strange paintings attracted critics to Manhattan's Balzac Galleries last week. They were the work of a bald, naturalized Frenchman named Jean Crotti. Painter Crotti is the most eminent exponent of a school of art known as surrealism...