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...hurriedly summoned to fill in. Softly the Marine Band played "A Bicycle Built for Two." There was quiet, reminiscent talk but no songs, no cheers, no collegiate informality. Despite their friendship for the President, no member of the team could screw his courage up to calling him "Bert." Coffee and cigars were followed by a lantern slide show of undergraduate days. When the reunion broke up before midnight. President Hoover said to his guests: "Come back tomorrow morning for medicine ball." Some of them did, and the next night, without the President, they ate another reunion dinner. A tour...
Last week Albert Cabell ("Bert") Ritchie, the handsome, smiling, divorced Governor of Maryland, went to New York City. An elevator shot him up to the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. There Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob wrung his hand in warm welcome. For more than an hour these three potent Democrats talked campaign politics. Later Governor Ritchie addressed the Academy of Political Science, said nothing important well. Cordial to all newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served...
...Coach Bert Haines and A. N. Webster '31 will have charge of the machine work this season, which lasts until shortly after mid-years, while Coach Whiteside will take charge of those men who are advanced enough to row in the tank...
...while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching in Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week the same "Bert" Hoover invited his old teammates to hold their annual reunion in the Lincoln Study of the White House. Judge Abraham Lewis (substitute) was coming all the way from Honolulu...
...Laugh Parade is produced, staged, largely written by and for Ed Wynn. It presents the usual Wynnsome monkeyshines, Comedienne Jeanne Au-bert's thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...