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...National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan three weeks ago, Man of the Year Johnson, wearing a hard-boiled shirt and expression, even quoted from Tennyson's "Maud" a bit of heroic verse to achieve the desired effect upon his audience...
...state dinner at the White House ended the Supreme Court's preholiday session. The Justices and their ladies found the table decorated with pink chrysanthemums, ate a bit of cheese for National Cheese Week, were entertained by Pianist Josef Hofmann and Soprano Frieda Hempel afterward...
...Baltimoreans, Pianist Emmanuel Wad and Playwright Elmer Greensfelder, wrote Swing Low. The title refers not to the hanging but to the recurrence of the spiritual ''Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which impressed the audience as being the finest bit of music in the opera...
...Jimmy and Sally," the other attraction at the Fenway is a pleasing but rather unimportant bit of the usual James Dunn whimsey-whamsey somewhat decorated by the presence of Claire Trevor...
...Morley "essay" is a peculiar literary form, neither fish, flesh, nor, fowl. It combines a bit of Chesterton with a good deal of Winchell, and now and then a touch of Mencken or Edgar Guest, to make a distinctive type of chatty writing. As a rule, his sketches are neither very amusing nor very dull. His most recent collection. "Internal Revenue", follows the norm, save that less of it is amusing and more of it is dull...