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...voters chose Billy Connery's successor: a bald, magnetic, music-loving Irishman. Add seven years to and subtract about 15 pounds from Lawrence J. ("Larry") Connery and the result is a twin for his late brother Billy, whom he had served as secretary since 1922. Nineteen years ago Sergeant Billy refused a promotion because it entailed separation from Sergeant Larry. Both became lawyers after they reached Washington. Last year Billy swamped his Republican opponent by a 3-2 margin; last week Larry won by 3-2. His first official announcement: he would re-introduce the Connery 30-hour-week...
...accede to strikers' demands. All summer the strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures, Fleischer distributor, promptly denied...
With Mr. White gone, and until Mr. Thurber's return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal...
Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married...
Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...