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...Second Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, Committeeman from South Dakota; John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska State Chairman who holds a job with the Federal Reserve Board; and Mr. Farley himself. Obviously Mr. Farley could not resign as head of the National Committee until he had finished rearranging the Democratic pack. Last week the shuffle began. First card dealt was a new Treasurer to dig up funds for next autumn's Congressional campaign, to pay the party's $500,000 debt, to mend financial fences in anticipation of 1936. The post was decorously offered to John Sanford Cohen...
...Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad only in a wolfskin, a pack of clogs nearly finished his career. Once a jealous husband had his tongue slit. Though he started on two crusades and did his share of fighting against his fellow-Christians, he never got farther than Cyprus. There he brought off his most dangerous coup by eloping with the Princess Xene...
Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
...have a look at Mallinckrodt, which is a huge building for making gases, and I told Uncle Harry that I thought so, but he said they also make peach, and orange and lemon flavoring from little molecules. Then he made me come back to his rooms and pack, but I have so much time that I am writing this letter and wish I could have gone into the chemical laboratory. Love, Osear...
Professor Schmidt threw in with the ice pack. Working fast, his remaining 71 men and women lugged food, scientific instruments, tents, clothing, records and baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard...