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...over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith: "The Town Crier of America...
Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...
...within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses, the county taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week's suit, brought by a Mrs. Libbie Maxwell against "Big Bill" Johnson & four associates, declared that her son-in-law, Herman Van Spankeren Jr., lost $15,000 of hers over a period of seven months in the D & D Club, Horseshoe Club, Harlem Stables and Devlin Club...
...Follettes, Governor Phil and Senator Bob, will not as in 1932 support Democratic Senator Francis Ryan Duffy for re-election late this summer. This year, the La Follettes let it be known that they will help the winner of the Progressive nomination-Representative Thomas R. Amlie or Herman Ekern, onetime State Attorney General-after next month's primary. Possible result: a special appearance in Wisconsin by Franklin Roosevelt in behalf of Senator Duffy...
...after Sportsman Williams' catch, another blue marlin, a monster, was feeling warm enough to strike at a fresh squid trolled by Sportsman Julian Carr Stanley, fishing with Captain Herman Jacobsen on the launch Mongoose. The fish ripped the line from its outrigger clip on his first rush, then took the hook solidly when...