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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940 f *§3k* % % %»,. j WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Decommissioned Subs Go Back to Duty N; EW YORK.—In 1933, young Nel- son A. Rockefeller was hand ed a delicate job of commercial .and cultural co-ordination, indeed a Rockefeller Well ^ » Qualified for HU beginner in Co-Ordination Job suade the Fiery Diego Rivera to x-out that head of Lenin in his mu rals at Rockefeller Center. He man aged the affair with tact and re straint, undisturbed by the thunder from the left. Now he has progressed to full time work in that highly specialized field. He is co-ordinator of com mercial and cultural relations be tween the United States and other Western hemisphere nations. Cur rently he is in the news as he ap points John Hay Whitney to* his staff, to take care of motion picture de tails of the above co-ordinating. 1 remember talking to one of his teachers at Lincoln school. New York. She said Nelson was good material for progressive education, as he had a way of getting on with people. He was a good student, top, romping so far ahead of schedule at Dart mouth that they gave him his senior year off. He devoted it to a wanderjahr, in which he went to India and bad a long chat with Mahatma Gandhi, and studied photography. Taking up .the rich man*s burden, he de voted himself mainly to the fam ily real estate, becoming presi dent of Rockefeller Center, which, incidentally, is one of the most successful feats of com mercial and cultural co-ordina tion in the world. Mr. Rockefeller, born in Bar Har bor, Maine, in 1907, is tall, blonde and reticent, an abstainer from al cohol and tobacco, always deeply in earnest. With his manifold business interests he combines a careful and difigent trusteeship of the Museum of Modem Art. This department can’t help but feel a bit doubtful about co-ordinating commerce and the arts—unless there is a John Masefield around to write a poem like ‘‘Cargoes.” ING BORIS of Bulgaria is doing ^ the best he can for his little Cinderella kingdom, but things don’t look so good. He reviews troops King Boris Would ^ s , hifts hi * * tanks and Rather Be *Casey guns around Jone* of Balkan* hto! that he is just making himself a lot of unnecessary trouble. As a king, he never did have his heart in his work. He has a passion for trains and never misses a chance to drive a locomotive. Engines fill his life and his dreams. When * his father, Ferdinand, abdicated in 1918, the young man insisted that he be allowed to go to America, and be a railroad engi neer, but his father forbade it. ' Ascetic in appearance, always of seemly behavior, he moved immacu lately through Balkan wars, revolu tions and internecine dogfights. Fer dinand had apprenticed huh to a versatile fighting man in 1912, when he was only 18 years old. He fought dutifully, but seemed always to be listening for the whistle^ of old 97, coming round the bend. His wardrobe, one of the best in Europe, runs mainly to pinstripes. He is a nimble dancer, good at all such orthodox sports as boar-hunt ing and timber-topping, but aroused and eager only when he has his hand on the throttle of a locomotive. In 1930, he married the Prin cess Giovanna of Italy. This al liance was regarded, among oth er dynastic ties, as a stabilizing and safeguarding influence for his kingdom, but now seems of small account. In 1934, internal stress led the king to set up a dictatorship, by a military coup. It didn’t help much. About 80 per cent of the exports of Bul garia continued to go to totali tarian countries, and it came more and more under their thrall. The king flirted with Rus sia for a while, with no gratify ing results. He has been in fre quent peril of assassination— and nothing seems to matter much, since they won't let him be a railroad engineer. I N 1935, he lost his job selling ou burners when the company fold ed up. Julia, his wife, said, “Now’* your chance to do some of that sing ing you were always going to do.’ So he piped up right away and san^. his way right through to the dotteo line on a Metropolitan Opera con tract. That’s young Arthur Kent, one of the ten new singers bookeo this season at the Met. He begai singing in cafes and churches ano then got 46 weeks in 'T Married ar Angel.” His repertoire includes Ital ian, Spanish, French. These submarines, shown tied up at Charlestown, Mass., said their farewell to arms after the World war armistice in 1918. Now they are getting ready to stage a comeback. These eight, and many others, will be recommissioned and returned to duty with the planned Atlantic fleet. The navy expects to have 36 of these submarines ready for duty by January 1. In addition, it has 104 first-line submarines, and 81 more which are now in the process of building. r ■ - * Instead of a Campaign Button 4? Here's a new wrinkle, from Hollywood, designed by Max Factor Jr., for a red-hot political campaign. Starlets Joan Barclay and Muriel Zaler wear their choice for President in the form of an old-fashioned beauty patch, with the initials cut out of court plaster. As a fad it’s good until November 6, but not a day longer. W. Draft Chief E^SCRE Dr. Clarence D. Dykstra, presi dent of the University of Wisconsin, who was unanimously confirmed by the senate as director of selective service. On Secret Mission U.- S. Naval Commander Walter Frederick Boone, who left Washing ton for London via Atlantic clipper to Portugal, on what purported to be a secret mission. Mass Pilot Training Starts Rapid expansion of the U. S. air corps begins November 1. Every five weeks 1,292 reserve fliers will be trained, until 50,000 pilots are turned put. Above, left, are neophyte fliers marching at Randolph field, Texas. Left, navy planes, and right, army planes. Chief of the army air corps, Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, is shown in lower right. National Horse Show Opens Teams from four American countries will compete at the National Horse show to be held in New York November 2-13. Above, one of the contestants practicing for the jumping contest. Amory L. Haskell (upper left) is president of the National Horse show, and Ned King (lower right) is manager. Proceeds will go to the American Red Cross. Art Week American Art week will be ob served November 1 to 7. Miss Flor ence Green (above) is national di rector of the American Artists Pro fessional league, which sponsors it. Heads Convention Mrs. Raymond Sayre, president of the American Country Life associa tion, will preside at their annual con ference to be held at Purdue univer sity. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 7-9. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HE question of who owns Dorothy Lamour’s hair has become a burning issue. It isn’t the hair that Dorothy had left when her famous long locks were removed, but the tresses that fell to the floor when she won the victory to have her hair bobbed. She bobbed it for Paramount’s ‘‘Moon Over Burma,” you’ll recall. Instantly the studio’s publicity de partment requested the make-up de partment to save the shorn locks; they knew that thousands of requests for a lock of Dorothy’s hair would pour in. The requests poured, all right. But —when the head of the publicity de partment sent for the hair, the make-up department replied that it was in the possession of Dorothy’s mother, Mrs. O. L. Castleberry. Mrs. Castleberry had protested bit terly against the shearing, and to appease her Dorothy had taken her the long and lovely locks. Now the question is—does the stu dio own those locks, or are they the rightful property of Mrs. Castleber ry, who refuses to give them up. * Humphrey Bogart just goes from bad to worse, so far as his work is concerned. Years ago he made a hit in his first important role in the stage play, ‘‘Cradle Snatchers,” in which he played the very juvenile HUMPHREY BOGART escort of Mary Boland. Jeanette MacDonald’s husband, then known as Raymond Guion, was another very youthful and capable member, of the cast. But the movies have turned Bo gart into one of our most sinister villains. In his new picture, “High Sierra,” he’s more villainous than ever. One of his milder acts is to crack the heads of two “goons” who cause trouble in his “mob.” Two years ago the Song Hit guild of New York set out to prove that amateurs can write hit songs. The guild’s record proves what a grand idea that was. In less than 18 months 18 unknown authors and composers- received ac credited publication, advance royal ties and contracts equal to those given established professionals. The list of their songs includes the popu lar “Can’t Get Indiana Off My Mind,” “I’m on the Verge of a Merge,” and “What Ev’ry Young Girl Should Know,” featured a while ago on the Hit Parade. The Song Hit guild is now con ducting its third nation-wide search for talent. If you’re interested, send your manuscript to the Song Hit guild, 1619 Broadway, New York city, at once. An advisory board headed by Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Billy Rose and Kay Ky- ser passes on all songs, and writers requiring such help are invited to collaborate with hit songwriters like Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh and others of equal note. Radio artists are reviving an old parlor game as a means of whiling away off-time in the studios, but they play it with radio programs instead of the titles of books or songs. Turning to the radio page of a newspaper, they run the titles of radio programs together to make a story in sentences like this—“Blon- die. Meet Mr. Meek, Light of the World!” * Marjorie Anderson is calling her new home on the outskirts of Phila delphia “The house that shadows built.” Married, mother of a two- year-old daughter, and wife of a successful construction engineer, she commutes to New York for her work on Mutual Broadcasting Sys tem’s Shadow program, and has earned enough to pay the rent for a year, landscape the grounds, and furnish the house. *— ODDS AND ENDS—Bill Stern is lining up Robert Taylor, Mickey Rooney and Claudette Colbert for guest appearances on his “Sports Newsreel of the Air’' if his program moves to the coast for De cember . . . Bing Crosby’s son Gary will follow in his dud’s film footsteps, it’s re ported . . . Benny Singleton, who broke into films as a dancer, dances for the first time in four years in “Blondie Goes Latin” . . . Fred Allen is willing to give $20 for a penny, if it's the righ. penny, lie left an 1HH7 penny, valued at $20, on his desk, and the maid, needing an other penny to pay the milkman, picked it up. So the $20 penny is now in circula tion as just another penny. Daisy Hot Dish Mat An Appropriate Gift By RUTH WYETH SPEARS IT WAS the flower handle of the 4 tea-pot lid that suggested this daisy mat. I had been thinking of making a hot dish out of firmly braided strips of cotton cloth. I wanted it to be thick and sewn firmly like a rag rug, so that it would stand frequent scrubbings. The design had to be novel and gay so that it would be appropri ate for a Christmas gift or would BRAlb ^ TIGHTLY \TO MAKE _ kSTRIP S/e fcWIDJE^ SEW WHITE STRIP SO LONG IN LOOPS TO MAKE IO PETALS SEW YELLOW BRAIDED [STRIP JO LONG^^SSX? V THEN SEW CENTER TO MAKE CENTER CIRCLE attract attention if used to sell at a church bazaar. All the direc tions you need to make one are right here in the sketch. 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