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...Goodwin of Hartford for Governor against Everett J. Lake, then Lieutenant-Governor. Goodwin won the nomination but "J. Henry" had split the Party, and for the first time in 20 years a Democrat was elected. Governor Simeon E. Baldwin. "J. Henry" came back quickly. He elected George P. McLean to the U. S. Senate in 1911 and the next year became State chairman. The Roosevelt-Taft split checked him momentarily, but he reorganized his machine Statewide, filled its treasury and from 1915 to the dawn of the New Deal reigned supreme. In 1920 Roraback moved on to the Republican National...
...critic laugh so hard that the rain shook off his hat down his neck. One is the Greek dance by the villainness on shoes whose soles Lily Pons has carefully soaped. A series of attempts by the immigration officers to find the French girl on the persons of "McLean's Wildcats" caused the second waterfall. Amid so many good scenes, the best is hard to pick, but the title probably goes to the swing version of "The Blue Danube Waltz". Nevertheless it is Lily Pons alone only who takes the picture out of the minor leagues into the big money...
Wearing her $300,000, 44½-carat Hope Diamond and six diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...industrious, 72-year-old Professor Charles McLean Andrews of Yale won the Pulitzer Prize with the first volume of his monumental re-examination into U. S. beginnings: The Colonial Period of American History. That book, running to 551 well-filled pages, the most ambitious of the author's 28 historical studies, opened with a phrase of classic serenity: "In fashioning this work," said Professor Andrews, "I think it worthwhile to begin whether I am able to finish it or not." Last week Professor Andrews took one long step toward completing his history when he offered a second volume, bringing...
...Author. Born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1863, tall, robust, blue-eyed Charles McLean Andrews says that his life could be of interest to none, hopes his writings may be. The son of a minister, descended from one of the first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office...