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...aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
With these troublemakers stands John Steven McGroarty, a newcomer of an-other calibre. He is a 72-year-old newspaper columnist from Tujunga, Calif, (publicized as California's poet laureate) whose capacity for troubling the House lies purely in the fact that he is the legislative general for Dr. Townsend and his pension plan...
Stocky, bullet-headed Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, has been a naval officer and a Captain in the Irish Guards with a distinguished War record. He is now director of three great London papers (Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sunday Express) and a part-time gossip columnist who has learned to overcome the British public's innate awe of a title by writing with elaborate earthiness. Fortnight ago His Lordship turned his attention to the menace of aerial bombardment during the next...
...with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem of who killed Gossip Columnist Tommy Tennant but also manages to make himself so charming to his friend Donna Mantin (Ginger Rogers) that nothing will satisfy her except marriage...
Invented in 1927 as a circulation stunt by the News's able columnist and onetime sports editor, Paul Gallico, Golden Gloves tournaments promptly substantiated his theory that each contestant had ten friends who would buy the News to read about him, got the News unexpected publicity when other papers recognized it as a bona fide sports event. The Tribune held its first Golden Gloves tournament in 1928. Newspapers in some 50 other cities copied the idea. That this year's bouts were more one-sided than usual was not due entirely to the fact that Chicago...