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...with colored tacks that represented infantry, cavalry and artillery. Geddes spent most of his spare time for several years in elaborating this game, ending up with a 45-page book explaining the rules. . . . Thirty minutes of play constituted the equivalent of a day's fighting; during the '20s, Geddes and his friends played it every Wednesday from eight in the evening until midnight. Some wars lasted two or three years. . . . The game occasionally took a tragic turn. Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, long a regular player, lost eight capital ships one night and was so humiliated that...
...from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend-a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when...
...20s Texas U. struck oil on its western lands. There has been $41,000,000 worth of it so far. Only the interest can be spent, but Texas University is rich for the South. University income is now about $3,500,000 a year-from endowment ($800,000), student fees and appropriations...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
Watching White Christmas' sales mount, Tin Pan Alley's song publishers crossed their fingers, wondered whether the good old days of the U.S. sheet-music industry might be coming back. White Christmas seemed to be leading a trend. Sheet-music sales, which during the '20s and '30s slumped badly in competition with popular phonograph recordings, are higher than they have been in 15 years (250,000 copies a week...