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...known and we have to rush off somewhere else. When word gets out that she's in town it's like telling gangsters, "Here's a lot of money; come and get it.' "A sheriff's jury in Towson, Md. decided that Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, now in a Baltimore hospital, was "a lunatic without lucid intervals, so that he is not capable of the government of himself or the management of his estate." A radio actor named Drexel Biddle Steele said he was "giving a small supper party...
...speed if not power and drive. Having absolutely nothing to say, she nevertheless manages to say it pleasantly, and her latest piece, dealing with the young Farrars of Homewood, N. J., is additionally brightened by the return from Hollywood of droll Roland Young and crack-brained Laura Hope Crews. Ned Farrar (Mr. Young) is an irresponsible husband who "makes just enough not to get along on," loses his job, accepts a position as handyman in the home of his wife's rich aunt (Miss Crews). This lady, unaware of his identity, takes a strong fancy to her new employe...
Undesirable Lady (written & produced by Leon Gordon). Playwright Gordon ten years ago wrote something called White Cargo. The action was laid on a South Sea island and a character named Ton-deleyo raised merry Ned among the resident white men with her "mammy-pala-ver." Mr. Gordon's present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains...
...Walter Beaver, electrician of Berwyn, Pa.: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 trapshooting event of the year; with 25 breaks in a row in the shoot-off, to 23 for 17-year-old Ned Lilly of Stanton, Mich., U. S. Junior Champion, after both had broken 98 out of 100; at Vandalia, Ohio. ¶All-star footballers representing the Midwest: a game against the Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan...
...drunken, naked midnight fun. The showmen even audaciously invited Fair officials to call in the police, if they were willing to risk law suits. Fair officials finally saved their faces by moving the weekday closing hour up to 2 a. m. On Saturdays, they agreed, visitors may raise Ned all night...