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...1specimen, the years since 1928 have been even sadder than for the rest of the world. Since Gene Tunney retired, the incumbents of this choice eminence have been uniformly unsatisfactory. Last week was the summer's busiest in heavyweight circles. In it, the promise of a happier era: 1) flickered darkly on the heavyweight horizon and 2) went...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...
...West Virginia Senator Borah last week played hardly a happier role than he did in Ohio. In a Statewide Presidential primary poll he swept all before him, his only opponent being one Leo J. Chassee of Milwaukee, Wis. This was no great triumph, however, because: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt polled nearly three votes to Borah's one; 2) the name of Alfred Mossman Landon was reported written in on many a Republican ballot, but since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State...
...with a lot of fast comebacks to make up for the merely average performance of Carole Lombard. Janet Beecher as Carole's mother does an excellent job with her tempestuous daughter who is in love with Cesare Romero. Romero plays his usual greasy part and the whole audience is happier when Foster and his millions save the heroine from a sloppy marriage...
Last January banjo-eyed Funnyman Eddie Cantor (ne Izzy Iskovitch) paused in his Pebeco Toothpaste broadcast. For the best essay on How Can America Stay Out of War? he would give a $5,000 col lege scholarship. Rarely had a radio bene faction been launched under happier au spices. The title was picked by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...