“Names make news.” Last week these names made this news:
Boxer Jimmy Slattery, 32, onetime (1930) world’s light-heavyweight champion, was sentenced to 30 days in a Buffalo jail for drunkenness.
Boxer Mike McTigue, 43, twice (1923-25, 1927) world’s light-heavyweight champion, was ordered committed to a Manhattan insane asylum.
At the invitation of the president of the local school board, Fan Dancer Sally Rand rode in Cleveland’s St. Patrick’s Day parade next to a float dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Declared Cleveland’s Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs: “I am deeply humiliated and ashamed. . . . Her inclusion [in the parade] does not represent the mind of the great Irish People.”
In Oklahoma 50 years ago Osage Indian John Stink lost consciousness while suffering from smallpox, was believed dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived his tribesmen thought him a ghost, ostracized him. Last week 74-year-old John Stink climbed down from the treetops where he had lived for half a century, trudged into Pawhuska to claim his $200,000 share of the fortune acquired by his tribe from cession of its oil lands some 25 years ago.
As a concession to his wealth, Hermit Stink consented to sleep on a cabin porch.
On a fellow Republican’s farm near Eldorado, Kans., Oilman Alfred Mossman Landon brought in a 100-bbl.-a-day well, his first strike since leaving the Governorship.
Pundit Frank Richardson Kent of the Baltimore Sun devoted an entire syndicated column to attacking New York’s much-publicized Representative Sol Bloom for publication of “particularly offensive . . . propaganda” in favor of the President’s Court plan, spelled his name “Blum” throughout. Tagging cor rection to the tail of his next column, Pundit Kent declared: “It was careless to confuse his name with that of the French Premier.”
In Cairo, Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow an nounced that she had decided to give up her study of Arabic in order to spend more time with her year-old son, Lance.
Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson picked Virginia Lee Maury Werth of Allentown, Pa. to christen the U. S. destroyer Maury, named for her great-grandfather, Confederate Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, In Memphis, Russian Count Anastasi Andrevich Vonsiatsky stumped for his “All-Russian Fascist Party,” financed by his wife, Pork & Steel Heiress Marion B.
Ream, with headquarters in Thompson, Conn. Self-styled “Hitler of Russia,” who boasts that his White Russian Battalion slew 500 Bolsheviks in 1917, the stocky, blond Count entertained newshawks by vaulting into chairs as he spouted plans for a Russian coup d’état, predictions of an early Soviet war with Germany or Japan. Boomed he: “Stalin will die in three months.”
In Manhattan, Director George Cukor described the kind of girl he was looking for to play Scarlett O’Hara in the cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. “The girl I select,” said he, “must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless.” Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins.
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