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...small, intensely loyal staff Publisher Thomason is "Uncle Emory." Female secretaries in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association say "he is the nicest president we ever had." A golf enthusiast, he once played 136 holes in a day, dined immediately afterward and then lost consciousness. He enjoys a crap game but would rather play chess, always carries a pocket-size chess board when he travels. With only a few minutes to catch a train to New York for a flying trip one day he made his business manager accompany him, without baggage, so he could have a chess opponent...
...does not share her unflagging belief in her brother's innocence. Neither do McKinley nor the Governor until Mr. Craven stumbles on the one flaw in the murderer's plot. If you are smart you might find the clue in this refreshingly upside-down mystery during the crap game...
...professional stage hands who accompany the Princeton Triangle Club show around its Christmas vacation circuit travel next to the locomotive in the "animal car." They shoot crap with the boys and are very funny. Several years ago, when the Triangle was playing Manhattan's august Metropolitan Opera House, one denizen of the animal car quarreled with one of the Metropolitan's resident stage crew...
...Madelon Claudet (TIME, Nov. 9). It is about a broken-down pugilist (Wallace Beery) and his ragamuffin son (Jackie Cooper). There is really only one situation-Jackie Cooper struggling to go on worshiping his father in the face of Beery's unworthy behavior (guzzling, crap-shooting, brawling in bad company) and Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which he has presented to his son, or is taken to jail for disturbing the peace, there is a shot of little Cooper sticking...
...Michigan. They contained: 1) An attack on the American Legion convention in nearby Detroit. Excerpts: "Alleged college drunks are mere children's parties compared to some of the sights which were witnessed in Detroit. . . . Drunks of various sorts, in various stages of intoxication, littered the streets. . . . Crap games were in progress...