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...committee which is running the dance consists of George Putnam, chairman, John R. Abbott, Robert G. Axtell, Benjamin O. Gardiner, Howard T. Healy, Albert F. Hyde, H. W. Ford King, Caleb Loring, Jr., Anson G. McCook, Donald E. McNicol, William T. Murphy, Charles S. Putnam, and Richard L. Weinberg...
Bovard's successor is a 6 ft. 4 in., 235-Ib. Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
...dignity disturbed at a hearing of a Judiciary sub-committee when hefty Negro Communist Benjamin J. Davis Jr., a graduate of Harvard Law School, delivered a 15-minute tirade against the opponents of the Anti-Lynching Bill. Vice President Garner, said he, paraphrasing a familiar refrain, was an "evil old labor baiter." "Shameful" were the tactics of Committee Member Senator Tom Connally (Dem. Tex.). While Davis bellowed, the apopletic committee glared, jumped up & down, threatened to throw the witness out. Said Senator Van Nuys (Dem. Ind.), co-author of the bill: "You have done more harm than good...
...fall of 1938 The Fifth Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...
...began three weeks age when Benjamin A. "Bunny" Barnes '41 received 21 of his namesakes to celebrate his coming of age. The rabbits carefully, selected for their starting color schemes, were released in his bathroom in Winthrop House by an unknown practical jokester...