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...Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society. He went on to St. Joseph's Seminary (Troy, N. Y.) and Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise in his church was rapid. A priest who never had a parish of his own, he began as assistant to Monsignor John Farley. When Monsignor Farley became auxiliary bishop, Father Hayes became his secretary. As the older churchman became bishop...
With all this on his mind, Burt Denman got together in Chicago's Union League Club last July with onetime (1929-33) Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Lines, President Troy W. Appleby of Ohio National Life Insurance Co., Utility Lobbyist Hugh Stewart Magill, Banker Henry Samuel Henschen, and some 30 others. Good Methodists all, they were thoroughly alarmed over Methodism's leftward trend. They prepared a statement deploring substitution of "economic and social systems for the Christian ideal of individual responsibility and freedom of choice...
...Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria Farkas, moved on to Berlin to work for UFA, arrived in Hollywood as a director for First National in 1925. After a series of mildly successful pictures, of which the most notable was The Private Life of Helen of Troy, he joined Fox. By 1930 he had lost his job, most of his money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help...
...calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick and smirking at the Greek fleet coming to retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose far end stick the feet of wily Cleopatra. Nearby a Roman lady takes...
...John W. Troy of Alaska (TIME, June 3 et ante...