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...Fords; agile gymnasts; "strange people from the far corners of the world." And there are birds & beasts without end -sprightly little dogs; pigeons colored like caster eggs; zebras that never quite learn their tricks; a sea lion that balances itself on one flipper; another that plays the "Star Spangled Banner"; the sea elephant Goliath who snorts like thunder and gulps adult fish on his motor truck; horses that wheel through handsome convolutions. As always, the Circus has something to please everybody. Boys who have grown too old to want to run away from home and carry water for the elephants...
...Russell Eugene Gardner of St. Louis formed Banner Buggy Co. out of which grew Gardner Motor Co. In 1924 Russell Eugene Gardner Jr. replaced his father in the driver's seat as president, attempted to quicken Gardner's pace by abandoning fours for sixes and eights. But Gardner's sales have shrunk, its fuel reserve of cash has been drained to almost nothing, for four years it has operated at a loss. Motor men do not blame Gardner's withdrawal on poor driving so much as on the difficulty for any small producer to survive because of high production costs...
...Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...
...drawing near the place where the setting sun casts its shadows eastward. My time to pass over the river will come at no very distant day. [Cries of "No! No!" from the audience.] But when I pass on I would like to do so with the realization that the banner of civic rights will be taken up by young men who will carry it farther up the mountainside than I have been able to. ... One of these young men I now present, Senator Bob La Follette...
...Capone "without gun permit or bodyguard" (TIME, March 2). Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational speech, Cartoonist Crosby-short, stocky, jut-jawed-had cried: "Capone . . . has one man right here in Chicago to whom he cannot sell protection nor security at any price! ... It must not be forgotten that once Babylon throve with corruption, but when the time came, God-without the loss...