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...other Michigan choices: loudmouthed, reactionary Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, who won renomination early in an outstate rural district; Mrs. Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt (divorced wife of the late Gracie Hall Roosevelt, brother of the President's wife), who got the Democratic nomination to Congress in a suburban Detroit district. Comely, brown-eyed Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of three daughters, concert pianist, once headed the State's WPA music project, beat five opponents, campaigning as an all-out supporter of the Administration and critic of Congress for lagging behind the people on war issues. She faces a hard fight...
Decline & Fall. Until this year, Ol' Gene never had much trouble getting reelected. His wild political rallies, with free fish fries and watermelon, panicked Georgia's rural voters. His traveling stooges, including the famed Tree-Climbing Haggards, yipped encouragement to his glowering, grammar-proof oratory. He showed his red galluses and his love for pore folks. The busy Palace Guard, working less spectacularly, machine-tooled many another vote. Ol' Gene rode high...
...R.A.F. air transport auxiliary. A cousin of the present King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, he was married in London to Mani Rajah Noeprabandou, daughter of a onetime Siamese Minister at London. Much publicized in 1939 was the elaborate exorcism of devils from his five-week-old son, in rural England. A champagne party followed long wordless rites that included an anointing, attaching of cords to the baby's body, and removal of a lock of hair, which was wrapped in a lotus leaf and set adrift on the River Bourne...
...head a technical mission to Brazil to help build up its industrial war machine, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, ex-Rural Electrification Administrator, ex-labor division consultant with...
Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...