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...drawing a creed, not a pla-form," declared Harrison Earl Spangler, Republican National Committeeman from Iowa and one of the promoters of the convention...
...were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett...
Melzi's son sold most of the manuscripts to one Pompeo Leoni, sculptor at the Spanish court, who in turn sold at least one volume to a Spaniard named Don Juan de Espina. This volume attracted the notice of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, friend to Anthony Van Dyck. For more than ten years the earl's agents nagged de Espina to sell. When Arundel died in 1646 he owned the book, but by that time Charles I had surrendered to the Scots rebels. Hence, suggests Kenneth Clark, the drawings did not at once pass to the British...
Eleven years ago Savo's baggy clothes and shuffling gait began to be seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...