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...years sobersided U.S. judges have muttered about the legality of Nevada's easy divorces. But armies of U.S. citizens went to Reno anyhow. Eventually, like the bull market of the fabulous '20s, Nevada divorce was accepted as a sound and logical American institution. Last week the crash came. The U.S. Supreme Court gave other states the right to deny Nevada's most cherished legal doctrine: that anyone spending six weeks within its borders has established a legal domicile, is thus entitled to a quick-won divorce...
...Chattanooga's municipal airport one day last week, a group of excited Tennessee schoolmarms & masters (age range: from 20s to 70s) took to the air, 29 of them for the first time. After zooming around for 20 minutes they were shown why a plane flies, how an airport tower operates, how weather and communication services are conducted. The occasion was the first of a series of "institutes" to prepare teachers for a state-wide program of aviation instruction in all public schools, from first grade through college...
...blue and purple and all kinds of clouds passing by." His mother's surprise passed, but her son's sensitivity persisted. Whenever Belmont heard the clanging of church bells, the twittering of birds, the echoes of his own voice-multiple colors flashed before his eyes. In his 20s he took up portrait painting, but he kept mixing up sounds and colors. Finally, he submitted to the inevitable. Last week twelve of Belmont's fully orchestrated "Color-Music" paintings played full blast in Manhattan's Belmont Galleries (owned by his wife...
...family did not want young Oscar to follow in its footsteps. But while studying law at Columbia he got involved in college dramatics, soon found himself working for Uncle Arthur. After a couple of minor musicomedy tries, Oscar clicked with Wildflower, went on to write-during the 20s - a half dozen of the best-known musicals in Broadway history...
Statistically, this line topped all of hockey's historic great goal-getters: the New York Rangers' Bill Cook-Frank Boucher-Bun Cook combination of the late '20s and early '30s; the Canadiens' superb Howie Morenz-Aurel Joliat-Johnny Gagnon trio in 1932-33; the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line" of 1939-40 (Milt Schmidt-Bobbie Bauer-Woodrow Wilson Dumart). By any N.H.L. standard, Montreal's tricky skaters looked great...