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...ensuing tussle Brother Bob, a conservative like his father, lined up with Cincinnati's Republican organization. As a reward for his party regularity, Ohio picked him as its Favorite Son for the Republican Convention of 1936. Brother Charlie, on the other hand, became a leader of the Cincinnatus Association, a group of energetic young men bent on ridding the city of its wasteful, machine-ridden government. They did, by putting over a new charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told...
...tests to find an actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed 467 times...
...then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
...their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York's nominating votes must go to him Or Else. Mr. Hilles maintained a pained silence while newshawks counted almost a majority of New York...
...obscure broadway actor named Cyril Gordon Weld, for whom she intended a large legacy. Weld died in New York in January, with Mrs. Nieman at his bedside. Saddened, Mrs. Nieman returned to Milwaukee and there made the instrument which was last week contested by Fred and Bob Wahl and Mrs. Paula Wahl Pierce, half-brothers and half-sister of Mrs. Nieman's father, the late Christian Wahl...