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...Baptist bone-dry wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman Dr. Work. He will have a Southern Republican Bureau. He will have money...
...sleek, dark hair of General Theodore Pangalos, the "Mussolini of Greece," turned white when he was deposed as Dictator and jailed (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week, the iron barred door of General Pangalos' cell opened by command of his great and wily friend, M. Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just maneuvered himself into the Prime Ministry (TIME, June...
...will be 24 on Aug. 10. No girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager...
...Mackay, telegraph-cable tycoon, was ordered by the Supreme Court of New York to pay $1,000 to his onetime secretary, Miss Catherine McCabe. She had fallen down stairs in Mr. Mackay's office building at 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, in 1923, sprained her ankle. The stairway was dark at the time; hence, the damages...
Tallulah Bankhead, red-headed daughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead, an actress with an ecstatic London following, was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance by an event which was like a threatening whisper in the dark. A man had jumped off the steamship Rochambeau, at night, into the Atlantic Ocean. The steamship had turned around in her course and sent a lifeboat to find him in the black wilderness of waves. When found, the man, nervous, apologetic, was carried to the deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom...