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...first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
Hollywood marked the beginning of a long, curious period of Hammerstein failure. He worked on a dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...
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...Iron Bars . . . In Doylestown, Pa., Prisoner Robert Henderson broke out of solitary, smashed through a steel mesh grating, broke a closely leaded window, squeezed his 170 lbs. between two iron bars, scaled a 10-ft. fence, escaped over a 32-ft. wall...
Leading the list of those elected, with 122 votes, is Gunther K. Rosinus of Indianapolis and Kirkland House. Other members of the committee are Luis A. Amescua of Mexico, D.F. and Winthrop House; David H. Barnhouse, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania and Winthrop House; Bernard A. Edison of Brentwood, Missouri and Kirkland House; John B. Jones, Jr. of Radnor, Pennsylvania...