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...first Biddle settled on the banks of the Delaware before William Penn. Now Philadelphia lists some 70 in its Social Register. Most famed of Biddies a quarter-century ago was "Tim O'Biddle," ring name of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur boxers of his day. In 1908 he stayed four rounds with "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien. Biddle Sr.'s other great passion was for Christ and somehow mystically he combined the two in a movement called Athletic Christianity. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, he would tell...
...Bob Allen, whose wife is Scripps-Howard's able Washington Correspondent Ruth Finney, lost his job as Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor four years ago when his employers discovered that he had helped write anonymous, gossipy Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). When his good friend & colleague, Drew Pearson, was similarly discharged from the Baltimore Sun for his hand in More Merry-Go-Round, the two turned their bad luck into fame & fortune by starting a syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. Crack newshawks both, their knowing gossip has made them minor political powers around...
...Year ago Bob Allen gave a helping hand to a friend when he got Paul C. Yates a job as executive assistant to his partner's father, Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands. Paul Yates's behavior in that capacity curdled Bob Allen's friendship into the wrath which exploded in the Senate corridor last week.** Their fisticuffs were a fitting prelude to a solemn Senate investigation of Governor Pearson's administration...
Somewhat ambiguously, President Roosevelt may have pointed the way to Bob Hutchins' future last autumn. President Hutchins called at the White House and for a few days the Press was rife with rumors that he was slated for a front-rank New Deal job, probably as NRA enforcement officer (TIME, Oct. 29). Then silence...
...already secured a leave of absence from Chicago to take the job. has heard not a word from the White House from that day to this. For all he knows the explanation Washington gossips gave may be true: that Donald Richberg talked President Roosevelt into canceling the appointment. But Bob Hutchins does know that the job which President Roosevelt definitely offered him after four White House interviews, and which he accepted only after the President had promised him full powers, was the dictatorship of then-potent...