At a special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency.
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were...
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