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February 7, 1932

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War Poster Model Is Jailed For Overstaying Alien Leave

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RIALTO GOSSIP; Arthur Hopkins Buys a Play -- A Shaw and Lee Revue -- "The New Sin" To Be Revived? GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

By Unknown Author

AFTER a period of quiescence, Arthur Hopkins has once more turned his attention to play production. He is starting work on a piece by David Boehm, co-author with Murdock Pemberton of "Sing High, Sing Low," a piece which, at present, bears the curious title of "Love Life of the Tiffy."

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MULROONEY FAVORS BASEBALL FOR BOYS; Tells Physical Educators It Is Best Game of All to Build Character and Alertness. SEES YOUTH GETTING 'SOFT' Police Commissioner Says Right Kind of Toughening Is Needed as Bulwark Against Crime.

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Plans for dedication of J W Lieb Memorial Library

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JAPAN TRIES TO END POWERS' MISGIVINGS; Cooler Heads Feel That She Cannot Afford to Have Trouble With Them. NEW FORCES MAY BE CUT Indication That Army Movement Will Be Limited -- Statement Changed in Last Hour. JAPAN TRIES TO END POWERS' MISGIVINGS

By Hugh Byas.special Cable To the New York Times.by Hugh Byas

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MUSSOLINI TO VISIT POPE FOR FIRST TIME; Premier Will Go to the Vatican Within Week to Mark Peace of Church and State. FAR EAST ROLE FORESEEN Italy May Become Protector of Missions, It Is Believed -- Pius Observes Anniversary. MUSSOLINI TO VISIT POPE FOR FIRST TIME

By Arnaldo Cortesiwireless To the New York Times.by Arnaldo Cortesi

Entrusting of protection of Far East missions to Italy foreseen as possible outcome of Mussolini's visit to Pius XI

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1932Gay Talese, American journalist and memoirist^[†]

Gaetano "Gay" Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.

1932Alfred Worden, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2020)^[†]

Alfred Merrill Worden was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the command module (CM) Endeavour.

Headlines from February 7, 1932

War Poster Model Is Jailed For Overstaying Alien Leave

RIALTO GOSSIP; Arthur Hopkins Buys a Play -- A Shaw and Lee Revue -- "The New Sin" To Be Revived? GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

MULROONEY FAVORS BASEBALL FOR BOYS; Tells Physical Educators It Is Best Game of All to Build Character and Alertness. SEES YOUTH GETTING 'SOFT' Police Commissioner Says Right Kind of Toughening Is Needed as Bulwark Against Crime.

JAPAN TRIES TO END POWERS' MISGIVINGS; Cooler Heads Feel That She Cannot Afford to Have Trouble With Them. NEW FORCES MAY BE CUT Indication That Army Movement Will Be Limited -- Statement Changed in Last Hour. JAPAN TRIES TO END POWERS' MISGIVINGS

MUSSOLINI TO VISIT POPE FOR FIRST TIME; Premier Will Go to the Vatican Within Week to Mark Peace of Church and State. FAR EAST ROLE FORESEEN Italy May Become Protector of Missions, It Is Believed -- Pius Observes Anniversary. MUSSOLINI TO VISIT POPE FOR FIRST TIME

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