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...shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
...next morning, part of the next afternoon. When she alighted she had established a new solo endurance flight record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, K. B. E., head of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., sat at a large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much of it. To Sir Henri, munching his pungent delicacy, might have come memories of the days in which he and John Davison Rockefeller would have constituted an extremely effective quorum on world oil-questions. What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who in his Arctic explorations often ate nothing but meat, last week completed in Manhattan a year's intensive meat-eating (no vegetables). Physicians of the Russell Sage Institute will report their findings in six months. Said Explorer Stefansson: "I feel perfectly fit, am wide awake, and am more aggressive. . . . I slept well and developed lots of brand new ideas. You know, I deal in ideas now?I have passed the stage where I have to carry them out." Explorer Stefansson...
...just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...