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...pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...
...singing motorman whose streetcar's speed depended, not on the company's timetable, but on the rhythm of the song he steered by-gay or melancholy, galloping or slow. The mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...
...that Joe Louis is the greatest fisticuffer of all time, predict that no one will beat him in the next two years-some say five, some say ten. Nevertheless, boxing managers are raking the country for a potential "white hope." Most promising youngsters discovered since last summer are a pair of Irishmen, Pat Comiskey and Billy Conn, and a Bohemian named Johnny Paychek (né Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy Conn, 21 and still growing...
...Cannes, France, as the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, other international socialites sat chatting with Lord Beaverbrook, the talk turned to cuff links. The Duke displayed a fancy pair, given him by his jewel-loving Duchess. Others showed theirs. Lord Beaverbrook stealthily pulled down his coat sleeves. When the Duchess demanded that he show his links, he sheepishly revealed a pair of safety pins...
Following the June graduation of Marian from Bennington and Ellsworth from Harvard, the pair plan to marry as soon as a job is found. Last summer Grant worked as an assistant director and messenger boy in a Hollywood studio, but prefers teaching or journalism as a future vocation...