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...Last of the Hill-Billies," a skit by H. I. Phillips, New York Sun columnist, showing a cabin full of mountaineers taking potshots at agents, theatrical, not revenue, who have come to kidnap the last of the mountain musicians for the radio and stage...
...recording the lives of the champagne set in its moments of abandon. A harvest of his finer fruits was assembled by Publisher David Kemp last week and issued in book form with an introduction by a still more spectacular young man named Lucius Morris Beebe. A hulking, hollow-voiced columnist on the Herald Tribune, Lucius Morris Beebe hires Rolls-Royces to attend cock fights, occasionally wears a silk hat to work, and is known to a whole decade of awed Yale undergraduates as the last of the boulevardiers...
...originator of wrestling with cattle, whose disgusting act was holding the poor beast by the nose with his teeth, was on his death eulogized by a gaseous columnist, saying his like would not be seen again. A humane animal lover retorted: "It is sincerely hoped there never would...
...Manhattan, rival society newshawks combed morgues, thumbed notebooks, hounded social secretaries to see who could compile the longest list of 1934-35 débutantes. Out in front was Hearst's American which found 355 in Greater New York. To accompany his fat list Hearst Columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") wrote an earnest, last-minute message, complete with his annual "Don't's," to the mothers of Park Avenue. Excerpts...
Died. Ruth Hale, 48, writer, onetime wife of Columnist Heywood Broun, president of the Lucy Stone League; of acidosis; in Manhattan. A vigorous feminist, she managed to have her U. S. passport read "Miss Ruth Hale" instead of "Mrs. Heywood Broun," although she was married to the columnist at the time. Friends considered her subsequent amicable divorce from Mr. Broun (TIME, Jan. 29) simply a romantic gesture to establish their individualities...