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...America) telling what he knew about the U. S. Few artists have seen as much. Benton looked on in awe at his father's breakfast table 40 years ago as the Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, engulfed one poached egg on half a baked potato at every bite. He lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with an eye for the smoking valleys, the shanty boats on the rivers, the boom...
...Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning...
Died. Douglas D. H. March, 52, Curator of the Old Panama Zoo; from the bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama...
...first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent's Boy Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...
...with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than his bite...