Monday, Nov. 26, 1934
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
The Royal Italian Big-Game Hunt reached a glorious climax in the jungles of Italian Somaliland when King Vittorio Emanuele III brought down a bull elephant with a single shot.
California's Upton Sinclair began work on a book to be called, I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked.
On a one-day hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away.
In an examination at the University of Pennsylvania, three seniors were unable to name the Vice President of the U. S.
After the convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Buffalo, Anna Steese Richardson, editor (Woman's Home Companion) and playwright (Big Hearted Herbert) sputtered: "It's the same old stuff we have had for 30 years. The same contralto singer. The same old blah, blah, blah all over again. It makes me wild....We are headed inevitably for Fascism and yet the club women go on with the same old stuff and the average woman in the American home .cares no more about the way in which her city, state, and Federal governments are run than her husband....Why here I am past 70 but full of fight."
Last spring Soupmaker Albanus Phillips (Phillips Packing Co.) wagered a diamond-back terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre.
Awarded to Pulitzer Prize Novelist Caroline Miller for her first & only book, Lamb in His Bosom, was France's Prix Femina for U. S. authors. Mrs. Miller will receive no cash prize but a free translation of her novel into French.
Not far from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely."
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