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...Sick almost unto death last week with intestinal flu and stomach hemorrhages was popular, convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...
Glorious Morning (by Norman Mac-Owan) has been playing for seven months in London. In the make-believe State of Zagnira a young medical student inspires a whole troupe of her family and friends to declare their belief in God although they know that under their totalitarian government that declaration means death. They die. A timely subject, handled with some suspense but little...
...over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...
Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...
...press was given for direct quotation a one-sentence sample of sententious Presidential philosophy: "It takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully accepted Nominee Downey as a true liberal, let National Chairman Jim Farley promise him election support...