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Before dinner, Bob Kleberg, slicked up in his whipcord pants but still wearing fancy high-heeled boots, likes to stride up & down the living room with a bourbon old-fashioned in his hand and give his expert opinion on everything from horses, cattle, politics, bourbon to how high the hawk flies. By means of a telephone on a 30-ft. extension, he is able to sandwich in long-distance business calls as he walks...
...wasn't until last summer, when the colonel took over the Bob Hawk quiz show for six weeks, that radio listeners noticed him again. The show zoomed up twelve places one week to the nation's top Hooperating. Bandleader Vaughn Monroe heard him, signed him to a seven-year contract...
...Robert Montgomery. Surprisingly, it took in more money the second time around than it did in the original release. M-G-M followed up by reissuing Boomtown (1940), The Great Waltz (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Warner Bros, dusted off King's Row (1941), The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Sea Wolf (1941), and 20th Century-Fox tried another round of Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...year-old Mrs. John Yetter surprised a fox in her chicken coop, doughtily grabbed it by the tail, gave it a whirl, bashed its head against the ground. In Willington, Conn., Mary Cski, 75, heard a commotion among her hens, hustled down, caught a marauding 8-lb. chicken hawk with her bare hands...
...idolatry in the U.S. may be a blind, uncritical worship of democracy. So says hawk-nosed Reinhold Niebuhr, a topflight theologian who also takes a vigorous interest in politics. In the current issue of his fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Editor Niebuhr writes...