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Show ""1 WHO'S , NEWS kTt THIS I ell fi WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Barring world champion prizefighters, Thomas E. Dewey probably has received more publicity than any other American of his Dewey Lulled years. He is 0nly Bossy With 36, but almost ev-'II ev-'II Traviata' rything about him is old news. However, as the New York Republicans Repub-licans nominated him for governor, gover-nor, the whole country seems hungry hun-gry for information about the cock of his eyebrow, his gold fillings, if any, the set of his suspenders and whether he runs down the heels of his shoes. Friends from the West and Far West have told me, and some have written, that there is more talk about Thomas E. Dewey for President than about all the other possibilities put together. These informants say the talk is not partisan that New York's young racket-buster is becoming the national symbol of a "happy issue out of all our afflictions." This reporter hereby hands him the agrarian vote: on the banks of the Shiawasse, near Owosso, in the state of Michigan, Michi-gan, he was a demon cow milker. milk-er. People would come for miles to see and hear him milk a cow. Musically gifted, he could make the powerful milk stream ring a tune in the pail as he sang "La Boheme," or "H Traviata." His father ran a country newspaper. As to the industrial East, he is s cagey bridge player who never takes his partner out of a business double. He is a squash player in winter, and a tennis player in summer. He sings baritone, a safe vocal as well as political range, and was trained as an opera singer, first in New York on a musical scholarship. There's nothing showy about him and he never makes a play to the press coop. He appears to be, to this observer, ob-server, the answer to Stuart Chase's plea for a new kind of politician. In a magazine article arti-cle printed about. a year ago, Mr. Chase tore all political dog- mas to tatters and said we would .get nowhere until we began be-gan to isolate and attack given problems and settle them according ac-cording to their immediate requirements, re-quirements, without regard to their political or philosophical context. Big town racketeering is one of those "given problems" and then some. It is interesting to note that, in his acceptance speech, Mr. Dewey renounced "political dogma." On most of the specific political Issues of the day, Mr. Dewey's opinion opin-ion has not been revealed. He has been slated as "liberal" and "progressive," "pro-gressive," but, in the days of "Tippecanoe "Tip-pecanoe and Tyler, too," the country coun-try esteemed fighting men and apparently ap-parently still does. ... GREECE has had several associations associ-ations to get the Elgin marbles from England. They're still there. The Association of Men With Wings j, , seems to have bet- Kerwood Out ter pr0Spects of To Bring Back reclaiming for Wright Plane America the original origi-nal Wright brothers' broth-ers' airplane. Orville Wright, who, for quite human and understandable understanda-ble reasons, let the plane go to England, Eng-land, now joins the association in its effort to bring it back to this country. When and if they succeed, it will be ' another feather in the flying helmet of Col. Charles Wayne Kerwood. Ever since he stopped daredeviling as one of America's most spectacular and adventurous aviators, he has been plotting to get that plane, even if he has to kidnap it. That was why he formed the above association, of which he is president. presi-dent. He flew and fought with the French in the World war, with the Greeks against the Turks in 1922, was wounded and grounded more than once, turned to barnstorming and sensational knockabout flying, and became president of the International Inter-national League of Aviators. He is a native of Chicago, big, bronzed, moustachioed, once a flying and fighting buddy of General Franco, against the Riffs. ... THIS department would like to come out boldly against something. some-thing. An unflinching stand against red fingernails looks pretty safe. Magistrate Jean-Woman Jean-Woman Jurist ette G Brill, Raps Foible ; Brooklyn's only We Fall In woman magis-trate, magis-trate, leans the way for a possible rallying of the democratic powers around a live issue. She reproves a woman defendant de-fendant for being thus incarnadined. Magistrate Brill has been a social worker, club woman, teacher, author, au-thor, student and lawyer. She works 18 hours a day and sleeps five. She releases subway banjoists, saying we need music in the subway. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. |