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Rollin Kirby had been a failure as a painter and a magazine illustrator when Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams got him a job as cartoonist for the New York Evening Mail in 1911. He went to the World in 1913, first of the small group of men who contributed to that brief flowering of literate criticism and liberal opinion, the World's editorial and "opp.-ed." (opposite-editorial) pages of the 1920s...
...Missouri's Democrat Cochran presented the House with a Reorganization bill of which not even thunder-gusty Columnist-General Hugh Johnson could complain. Eschewing aspects which aroused cries of "Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter the executive establishment. The plan would become effective if Congress should not (without filibustering) veto it by majority vote in 60 days. Things which the President may not touch or have: Comptroller-General's office, Civil Service Commission, Department of Public Welfare or Works, more than six administrative assistants...
Making of this picture caused a spat between Messrs. Paul and Beebe. When Paramount paid Columnist Beebe $500 for "inventing" the title, Reporter Paul jealously announced that it was he who had done the inventing, threatened to sue. Unwilling, however, to give so much free publicity to Paramount, he decided not to sue, has since received no credit line, no money. The picture itself is likely to aggravate Mr. Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including...
...devoted 20 years, poked his nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist out of a convent girl...
Born. To Evelyn Walker Robinson ("Evie") Robert, 29, beauteous Washington hostess, columnist (Eve's Rib) in the Washington Times (see p. 34); and Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., 51, secretary of the National Democratic Committee; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...