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...special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency...
...Donated his ancient, battered, good-luck campaign hat, a twelve-year-old grey fedora, to the motion picture benefit relief fund's raffle...
...Twenty-four times the menu included fried chicken and ice cream, ten times potato salad.) He was presented with: a light fedora (to replace a beloved dark hat he left behind in Franklin, Ind. as the train pulled out without waiting for him); an oil painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book...
Through the malodorous mazes of the Associated Gas & Electric system now in reorganization (TIME, March 4) one man used to walk with a sure foot-moonfaced Howard C. Hopson, who put it together, kept the diagram under his fedora...
...Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor...