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...really ought to have a safety pin. I am arranging to borrow a safety pin. We are asking $580,000 for that picture, do you want to know why? It's because we don't want any American millionaire to buy it. We're going to sell it to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow...
...have come to the conclusion that it will be next to impossible to directly pin anything to Bishop Cannon. I am sincere in saying that I consider him to have the best brain in America, no one excepted. He has without exception foreseen and prepared for every attack made upon him. ?Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whom Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is suing for $5,000,000 for "false, scandalous, defamatory and malicious libel" (TIME...
Last week at Washington four ministers of Bishop Cannon's Church tried to pin four dozen accusations upon him. They too found him "prepared for any attack." The accusations dealt with the Bishop's four most vital interests?God, two women, politics and the stockmarket. Last spring at the Dallas general convention of the church he wept himself into official forgiveness for his stockmarket gambling (TIME, June 2). Two weeks later he told a U. S. Senate committee that his political lobby and market activities were none of the Senate's business and with the single crutch he was then...
...Maine, stage door crowds, and Mr. Vallee's dislike of newspaper publicity an entrance was made into his busy and crowded dressing room. Unlike most stars of importance. Mr. Vallee wore no make up, his manner was simple and direct and he still wore on his yest a fraternity pin, reminiscent of his college days at Maine and Yale. In one corner of the room was a large basket of flowers from the Kiwanis Club of his home town which he later acknowledged with his characteristic unassuming naivete during his Act. Ris whole attitude was distinctly not theatrical...
...sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created a sensation. Her voice was curiously husky, uneven, but she played the role with such singular understanding that she sold out 100 performances