People: The Old Gang

William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking.

Sally Rand, well-nigh immortal fandangler, sponsored a scholarship at the University of Illinois, handed a $1,000 check to its temporary custodian, Harold ("Red") Grange, football's famed Galloping Ghost of the early '20s.

Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma...

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