McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 24, 1941, Image 2
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
v
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK. — Quintilian’s line,
“He abounds in sweet faults,”
was meant for James F. Dewey.
The quite uniformly successful fed-
Share a Failing, 'onci/ia^
Promote Harmony, seems t o
Dewey's Method ^
are more apt to be brought together
by pooling their little redeeming
vices than by matching virtues.
Share a human weakness with a
man and he’s apt to begin to feel
the stir of fellow-feeling. That
seems to be the idea, although there
is no evidence that all this is pre
meditated on Mr. Dewey’s part.
Here’s how he “joins” ’em:
He doesn’t mind his calories, or
‘worry about his waistline.
He likes to sleep late.
He smokes cigars so strong they
make an Erie freight engine smell
like an atomizer.
He isn’t systematic. Taking
over as a conciliator, perhaps
addressing a big jittery meeting,
he excavates various bulging
pockets and discovers he has
forgotten his credentials. Then
he forgets about ail that, opens
with a wide nonpartisan smile,
delivers his speech and makes
them like it.
He dislikes exercise, yet he is a
rough-and-ready hoofer who will
dance on the slightest provocation—
until his tongue hangs out.
He wears his hair loosely and
casually.
All this and more of the same,
sets Mr. Dewey sharply apart from
the slick and impeccable conformist
who is always putting other people
in the doghouse and thereby getting
nowhere as a conciliator. Sen.
James J. (“Puddler Jim”) Davis set
him up as a mediator, in the depart-
ihent of labor, after he had done
some strikingly effective conciliating
in Pennsylvania. He was a school
teacher, auditor for a coal company
and a telegraph operator. At the old
home place at Chester, Pa., he
spends a lot of time patching things
up and making them work. Amateur
tinkering always denotes the true
pragmatist at work. Maybe that’s
what all this strike trouble needs.
MONO those ready to affirm that
a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country, Leon M.
Henderson, director of price stabili-;
gj „ DseeeaeUee* ZatiOH for the
Merer a a Prophet National De .
Given Full Honors fense com-!
v u* w j mission, may
In His Own Land not be includ
ed. Once he was a farm boy in
Millville, N. J., and his hometown
folks have just honored him with a
banquet and other proceedings, es
tablishing him as “No. 1 Citizen” of
the village in which he was born 46
years ago. Joined with the citizen
ry were not a few government of
ficials coming from Washington to
approve and acclaim the excellence
of Millville’s choice.
Here is a village Hamden, “inno
cent of his country's blood,” who
didn’t stay in a village, one who has
been in the thick of things, up to his
elbow as some on? recently said dl
him, in all sorts of affairs best
known by alphabetical designations,
as NRA, WPA, TNEC, SEC, NDAC,
etc.
One of the strong men in the
national defense picture—he is the
only New Dealer on the defense
commission of seven members and
its only economist—they called him
the nation’s outstanding crystal gaz
er when he predicted the business
boom of 1936 and its drop later, in
1937. Ironically smiling, Hender
son has subscribed to the appella
tion.
His induction into government
service came about in rather a
curious way. In 1934, as direc
tor of the remedial loan division
of the Bussell Sage foundation,
he began sniping at the NRA, and
his shots were so accurately
aimed as to arouse, not the an
ger, but the admiration of Gen.
Hugh Johnson who grabbed him
as consumer advisor. Very soon
thereafter he became director of
research and planning, and
when a Supreme court broadside
sank the NRA he was appointed
secretary of the senate commit
tee on manufactures.
There he was when the 1936
national presidential campaign ar
rived. He was withdrawn and made
economist for the Democratic na
tional committee. It is said of him
that the source of information en
abling Jim Farley to predict so
shrewdly the outcome of this elec
tion was Leon Henderson.
Then Henderson became econom
ic counsellor to the WPA and subse
quently held various important of
fices until the creation of the advi
sory commission to the National
Council on Defense. His hobbies-—
smoking cigars and early rising.
Mighty Battlewagon for Uncle-Sam
Scene on the deck of the U. S. S. North Carolina, as the 35,000-ton
battleship was commissioned six months ahead of schedule. Three of the
battleship’s nine 16-inch rifles form an impressive backdrop for the
ceremonies at Brooklyn, N. Y. The North Carolina is the first of 17
capital ships authorized under the two-ocean navy program.
Capitol Hill Picks a Queen
Eleven girls in a row, and beauties all! From all this pulchritude
pretty Bonnie Patton, sixth from the left, daughter of Rep. Nat Patton of
Texas, was selected as “Miss Capitol Hill” by members of the “Little
Congress.” She is pictured with the runners-ups. The “Little Congress”
is made up of congressional secretaries.
Brazilians
Alzyra Peixoto, daughter of the
president of Brazil, arriving in
Miami with her husband. They aro
shown on their way to Chester, Pa.,
to attend the launching of a ship,
“The Rio de Janeiro,” for Brazilian
maritime forces.
To Leave Italy
Capt. William C. Bentley, assist
ant military attache for air, of the
U. S. embassy in Rome, whom the
Italian government requested with
drawn from Italy, “immediately.”
Iflll Illl
Defense Securities on Sale May 1
Uncle Sam’s new defense bonds, savings certificates and stamps will
go on sale May 1 with a $3,000,000 publicity campaign behind them—the
“Liberty Bond” drive of World war II. Shown above is Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and a chart showing the series and
amounts of the defense securities.
Encourage Home Improvements
Simplicity
Beauty
Economy
Last Year's Campaign
Families reached—2,700,000
Community Clean-ups—5,600
Houses inspected—16,500
HIM*
Home improvements made-3,500,000
“Better homes—simpler homes,” is the theme of Better Homes week
to be observed throughout the nation, April*/i7-May 3. The chart above
indicates scope of last year’s observance. This is a strictly non-profit
enterprise which encourages better homes by various means. Sketches
show how simplicity can improve the appearance of a home.
National Unity
■ili
In an effort to promote national
unity, the Veterans of Foreign Warn
will sponsor Americanization day,
April 27. Commander-in-chief Rob
ert Merrill and Legislative Rep. O.
Ketchum are shown making plans
for the event.
Business Leader
President of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce, J. S. Kemper, who will
preside at the organization’s annual
convention in Washington, April 28-
May 1.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
B ECAUSE Carole Lombard
and Clark Gable interested
themselves in his career, tall,
handsome Reed Hadley, who
hails from Texas via New York
theater and radio acting stop
overs, appears to be safely
launched in Hollywood.
He first attracted Miss Lombard’s
attention a few weeks ago, when he
appeared with her on a national
broadcast in New York. Gable met
him at that time also. Both were
impressed with young Hadley’s ap
pearance and talents. Gable sug
gested to Director Clarence Brown
that Hadley be tested for the role
of a young British officer in “The
Uniform,” at Metro, in which Gable
and Rosalind Russell are co-starring.
An important requirement was that
the actor chosen for the role be
able to wear a uniform worn by Ga
ble. The young actor fitted the uni
form, and the part was his—no test
was required, just an interview with
Brown. At the same time casting
officials grabbed him for “Man
From the City,” with Robert Ster
ling, Paul Kelly and Marsha Hunt.
*
Ray Milland is moving right
ahead, and fast. After turning in a
fine performance in
“I Wanted Wings”
he was chosen by
Cecil B. De Mille
for one of the two
male starring roles
in “Reap the Wild
Wind.” It’s a tale of
the Florida kets, a
i hundred years ago,
k s and Milland is a
K, fighting young law-
yer from Charles-
Ray Milland ton, who smashes a
desperate crew of
ship wreckers and wins the girl.
John Wayne has the other stellar
male role—that of a sea captain who
also wants the girl. And all in Tech
nicolor.
-Xr
Getting a screen test isn’t too
easy, and Richard Wallace, director
of Harold Lloyd’s first production
for RKO, “A Girl, a Guy and a
Gob,” explained why the other day.
He computes the cost of a test at
from $1,500 to $3,000. The candidate
is brought to Hollywood, make-up
artists go to work, hairdressers and
wardrobe department heads are
called in. An experienced actor is
selected to appear opposite the can
didate—and there are the salaries
of the director, cameraman, elec
tricians, sound men, etc. Then the
candidate may be no good!
George Raft, who has one of the
largest and most expensive ward
robes owned by
Hollywood actors,
is breaking in some
$22.50 suits for his
role as a power line
man in Warner
Bros.’ “Manpow
er.” That’s the pic
ture in which Hum
phrey Bogart was
slated to share hon
ors with Raft and
Marlene Dietrich,
but Raft, who wise
ly realizes his limi
tations, refused to appear with him.
Ida Lupino didn’t want the talented
Mr. Bogart in “The Gentle People”
with her, either. Warners offered
him a nice, fat part in “Bad Men of
Missouri” but he would have none
of it, and was suspended.
*—
John Loveton, producer of “The
Court of Missing Heirs,” insists that
actors in mob scenes say sane, per
tinent words. He had his lesson long
ago; he was part of a mob scene
on a radio drama broadcast, and
when an unexpected silence fell on
the air his voice boomed out, shout
ing “Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!”
He’s never acted since, but as a di
rector he cracks down on anyone
who doesn’t contribute something
sensible to those background mur
murs and mutterings.
Paramount believes that a new
Jean Harlow, or Clara Bow, has
been discovered in the person of
“sultry, blonde” Veronica Lake, (to
quote a press agent) who is fea
tured in “I Wanted Wings.” “Not
since Greta Gatbb' leaped to over
night fame in her first picture, “The
Torrent,” have New York movie
critics lavished such acclaim upon a
newcomer,” to quote another press
release. Maybe so, but the low cut
of Miss Lake’s necklines made such
an impression on a good many peo
ple that they hadn’t a great deal to
say about her acting.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Universal has taken
an option on the screen services of Baby
Sandy's brother—tvho is one week old . ..
The March of Time's latest, "The F. B. I.
1941," shows how the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is concentrating on the
prevention of espionage and sabotage in
industry . . . Mutual's "The People’s Play
house,” heard Tuesdays and Thursdays,
presents dramatic sketches based on ideas
submitted by the public . . . BKO is
screening "Parachute Battalion,” with
Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly and Harry
Carey . . . You’ll see Tommy Harmon,
All-American half back, in "Harmon of
Michigan "
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