McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, June 15, 1939, Image 2
McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK. — Vincent Bendix
■*- got on famously as long as he
stuck to tinkering, inventing and
fussing with machinery. He did
«»#• « , many other
Without Wheels things, but any-
It’s No Go for thing which
Vincent Bendix didn’t have to
do with wheels,
cams, and pinions was just no dice.
It was his Chicago real estate
deals which brought against him the
petition in voluntary bankruptcy
filed in Chicago, say his lawyers.
His holdings were more than $5,000,-
000, including the famous Potter
Palmer Lake Shore drive residence
—all down the chute in the federal
district court. His machinery com
panies, not involved in the petition,
are rolling along nicely. They seem
to be one up on the “good earth” as
an arcanum of security. Modern
times are like that.
In the basement of a New
York hospital, where he ran the
elevator, he had a grand time
taking an old hot-tube gas en
gine to pieces and putting it to
gether again. He was 17, not
long from Chicago, where he
had been a telegraph messenger
boy. An old one-eyed swamper
around the place, who under
stood machinery, had instruct
ed him in the working of the
power plant and had encouraged
his laboratory work. There was
a close working alliance be
tween faculty and student body.
Two years later, the lad got a job
as a typist in a law office, baffled
at first because he couldn’t use a
monkey wrench on the typewriter,
but exploring it satisfactorily with a
screw-driver and pliers.
But a law office hadn’t any
wheels, and he did better with
the Lackawanna railroad, which
had plenty, although he was in
the traffic department. In his
spare time, he worked out im
provements on a bicycle chain
and sprocket. That brought him
in touch with bicycle manufac
turers and at last he was on the
main line—and it wasn’t the
Lackawanna. It was a wide,
paved highway to millions in the
invention of automobile and avi
ation devices whose only dead
end was real estate.
Of Swedish ancestry, son of a Mo
line, 111., Methodist minister, he
packed a copy of Schopenhauer in
his pocket when he was a messenger
boy. In those days, he wolfed Hux
ley, Darwin, Marx, Tyndall, Wallace
and Spencer, calling himself a So
cialist in his earlier years. Never
still a minute, he is buoyant and
resilient at 57, and his friends shrug
off this bankruptcy business as just
a short detour from the main high
way. They say they wouldn’t be
surprised if he should bob up with
something as exciting as perpetual
motion, one of these days.
CALTY, laconic, William Allan
^ Neilson, rounding three score
years and ten, retires with this
year’s graduating class as president
of Smith col-
The Groves of
Academe Laud
Retiring Prexy
lege. Rarely
does any pass
ing prexy get
such a hand
from students and faculty. Some
what in the picture of Stringfellow
Barr of St. John’s, and Maynard
Hutchins of Chicago, he has put over
education on its merits. He has been
first a scholar and secondly an ad
ministrator, but has fired so much
enthusiasm that administration has
pretty much taken care of itself.
The University of Edinburgh
and Harvard passed on to him
the flame of the great Elizabeth
ans. Merry eyes—little white
beard—resonant laugh—with a
surgically incisive mind—he has
been to the Smith undergradu
ates a blend of Chaucer, Shakes
peare and Erasmus—although
said immortals didn’t smoke big
cigars. He takes a bow from
all the groves of academe.
'T'OSCANINI was so pleased with
a tie designed by Mrs. Malcolm
D. Whitman, former Countess Lu-
cilla Mara de Vescovi, that he had
_ . one like it
Woman Designs made for each
Styles for Men; of the 93 mem-
They Like 9 Em bers of his or
chestra. That
started her designing ties for Doug
las Fairbanks Sr., Noel Coward,
Count Andy Robilant, et al. One
thing led to another, and now Mrs.
Whitman returns from Europe as
the only woman couturier for men,
after a study of the latest in men’i
styles on the continent.
Her ancestors were members
of the council of ten of the Vene
tian republic. One of them mar
ried the painter Tintoretto, be
queathing a sensitiveness to
fabrics and color, no doubt. She
was a concert singer before her
marriage to Mr. Whitman.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Range Romance Lives Again in Musty Records
Romantic stories of the early days of Los Angeles county, when huge herds of cattle roamed the range,
were recalled when County Supervisor Oscar Hauge uncovered hundreds of cattle brands dating back to
1833. The leather, upon which the brands were burned, was found in two old trunks, and was in first-class
condition, despite the passing of more than a century. Most owners of the brands were old Spanish families.
Star Dust
★ Winner: Virginia Vale
★ Scouts Eye Graduates
★ Elbow Room for Grant
By Virginia Vale
APPARENTLY Jesse Lasky,
./l. who is now conducting his
second search for new faces for
the screen, thinks that there is
something in a name—at least,
something in my name. For he
has chosen “Virginia Vale” as
the name which will be be
stowed on the girl who is select
ed as the winner of this nation
wide talent quest.
The boy who wins will be called
“Robert Stanton”—which makes me
wonder if some man, somewhere,
who really is named Robert Stan
ton, was as startled and exasperat
ed as I was over discovering that
his name had been kidnaped, as it
were. There ought to be a law
against it!
*
Freddie Bartholomew is no longer
a star. Metro has demoted him,
and promoted James Stewart,
England Tests Efficiency of War Time Firemen
Eight burning cottages attracted a large crowd of interested London spectators recently when fire-fighting
units of the air raid protection organization demonstrated their efficiency. The A. R. P. is now seeking vol
unteers so that it can give similar realistic tests of its bomb proof shelters. England has taken great steps to
safeguard its people in the event of air raids.
Japan Sends ‘Friendship Flame’ to U. S.
The ‘‘Flame of Friendship,” presented to the New York World’s
fair as a symbol of the friendship between Japan and the United States,
was lighted by Mayor Keikichi Tanomoti of Tokyo from burning fagots
of cypress wood brought from the Izumo grand shrine, where, according
to Shinto mythology, the flame has been burning for more than 1,500
years. The flame was carried to New York by Miss Akiko Tsukimoto.
DIAMOND ARISTOCRAT
Charley (Red) Ruffing, star pitch
er of the New York Yankees, is
shown holding a trophy given him
by his wife after recording his 200th
big league victory recently. Only
four other present day hurlers are
in this select circle of 200 game
winners.
Coeds Train for Hawaiian Crew Title
TOURS UNITED STATES
Annual territorial outrigger canoe races at Honolulu July Fourth
stir this coed crew from the University of Hawaii into active training.
Left to right are Nancy Hicks, Cornelia Hogg, Ruth Murphy, Jean Butch-
ard, Adean Ross and Jean Cowan. The races are one of the year’s
outstanding sports events.
General Evangeline Booth, head
of the Salvation Army, at present
touring the United States, will re
turn to England in August for the
meeting of the Salvation Army high
council to select her successor.
JAMES STEWART
whose popularity increases with ev
ery picture he makes—and he’s
making plenty of them these days.
*
These are the days when the girls
who are graduated from high school
or college may be taking a screen
test right along with their diplomas,
without knowing it. Practically all
of the major movie companies are
in need of pretty girls, it’s said,
and talent scouts have gone forth
to find them.
Of course, the very girls who
come out best in these informal
screen tests could probably go to
Hollywood and try hopelessly for
years to get into the studios.
—m—
Remember Wesley Barry, one of
the screen’s first child stars? He
has been signed for a feature role
in “Stunt Pilot,” the second in a
series of Monogram pictures based
on the “Tailspin .Tommy” cartoon
strip.
He has been in the real estate
business for three years, and during
the last nine months has been sales
manager for a large realty firm in
Hollywood.
5K
George Hicks, the NBC announcer
who has been down to the bottom
of the ocean and up in the clouds
for special broadcasts, and is to
cover the American visit of the king
and queen of England, has received
more than a thousand letters from
fans who enclosed blank sheets of
paper with the request that he get
the royal visitors to autograph them.
Hicks is the kind of man who
wouldn’t make such a request even
for himself!
X
Cecil B. DeMille always orders an
extra microphone on the stage
when Cary Grant is doing a play
on that radio theater program. The
extra microphone is used exclusive
ly by Grant, who waves his arms
and gesticulates while performing,
and doesn’t like to worry about ac
cidentally striking the person beside
him.
*
Over a period of two months The
Three Marshalls (Peggy, Jack and
Kay) have had to change their
radio program five times because
the songs they submitted to the sta
tions before taking to the air were
banned.
They couldn’t sing “Hallelujah,
I’m a Bum”—it was thought to be
offensive. “My Heart Belongs to
Daddy” was all right if only Peggy
and Kay sang the lyrics; Jack could
play the music, but he couldn’t sing
—network rulings reject the song if
it’s sung by a man.
They couldn’t sing “The Preacher
and the Bear” because the lyrics
contain the word “coon.” “Shoot
the Likker to Me, Jive Boy,” a jam
session favorite, could be sung only
if some word not suggesting an al
coholic beverage was substituted for
“likker”—which in this instance was
used as a musical term.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—“Captain Fury”
the first motion picture to be shown at
New York's “World of Tomorrow,” is one
of the most old-fashioned melodramas
seen for a long time in the world of toda\
. . . Here’s an inspired title for you—
the sequel to “Angels With Dirty Faces'
will be called “Angels Wash Their Faces
. . . Mickey Rooney’s going to England t<
make “A Yank at Eton” this summer . .
Jack Benny’s “Man About Town” may n
vice the popularity of musical pictures.
tR«i«afied by Western Newspaper Dnioa.
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CHILLS AND
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The very next time, you feel an
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Alldrug stores sell Grove’sTastelesa
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you much more for your money.
Aid in Silence
When you have nothing to eay,
say nothing; a weak defense
strengthens your opponent, and si
lence is less injurious than a weak
reply.—Colton.
rMiisculan
Aches
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To think of today’s work as a
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Life in the Right
For forms of faith let graceless
zealots fight; he can’t be wrong
whose life is in the right.—Pope.
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