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Through a fantastic pre-convention week Hamilton drove a bandwagon. Nothing was news unless it bore the name of Landon. A majority of Pennsylvania delegates would plump for Landon. All the Old Guard politicians were conspiring in vain to ''Stop Landon." Indiana's State Convention picked its delegates, tagged them Landon. Emporia's sage, beaming William Allen White, and troops of Kansans roamed the streets wearing yellow sunflowers inscribed "Landon." The Texas delegation came out, all over again, for Landon...
...When he died in 1930, aged 69, he left $20,000 to Tennist Helen Wills Moody, $20,000 to Author Gertrude Atherton, scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has never been outside the Golden Bear State...
...Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
During a span of 30 years, from 1894 to 1924, more than 40 of the musical comedies produced on Broadway bore the name of Victor Herbert. Fashions changed from broughams and leg-of-mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas...
...gardener noticed a great number of odd insects among the flowers and shrubs. He had never seen any creatures like these in England. They were a dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and large, staring eyes. Their legs were orange and their wings, which spread three inches when open, bore dark markings resembling the letter "W." The gardener took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department of Agriculture. One of the Department's entomologists told the worried gardener that the insects...