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Gene & Glenn are not to be compared as drawing cards with such headliners in their field as Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, the Voice of Experience, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. One night last week 24,508 Clevelanders paid 25? each to see & hear Priest Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., make the second of twelve personal appearances aimed at welding the "8,000,000 members" of his National Union for Social Justice into a working political organization...
...four robustious Mills brothers live in staid, suburban Oak Park, where they were raised. Their father who founded the company in 1889 had the distinction of having once cornered the Spanish peanut market and annoyed his less hearty neighbors by keeping a herd of cows on his broad lawns. In winter the Brothers Mills dispatch their jointly-owned yacht Minoco (after their company; to Florida where they continue their fun-making while fishing. Once they made a composite photograph, showing the heads of the four brothers on bodies of more fortunate fishermen...
...Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, likes to wave his hand toward the filing cases containing the names of all those whom his radio-voice has incited to write to him. He likes to say: "The 8,000,000 members of my National Union for Social Justice. . . ." Yet the best likeness this radiorator ever saw of his 8,000,000 followers was the face of a microphone. Last week in Detroit's Olympia Auditorium he attempted a new adventure: to meet his followers in the flesh...
Early in February 1932 a young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday...
...says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...