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...Santa Barbara, Calif., citizens alarmed by rumors of nakedness on the beaches sought to have young men & women night bathers arrested, until shown this city ordinance, enacted...
...Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid boy, his youth was unhappy, and he would have taken the course of least resistance into the Church had not a stronger-minded friend rescued him. Then came the War, and once or twice it looked as though that would...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan...
Miss Marjorie Durant, daughter of wealthy automobile builder William Crapo Durant, was severely shaken when her airplane crashed through the fence of an airport at Santa Barbara, Calif. With her was a pilot and a Dr. N. H. Brish, physician to rich Stanley McCormick at the great estate where Mr. McCormick is held virtual prisoner as an incompetent...
...built himself a house on Bora Bora, 300 miles from Tahiti in the Society Islands, and spent three months selecting natives for his cast. Six months ago he returned to Hollywood. Last fortnight he was killed when his car ran off the road some miles north of Santa Barbara, rolled down a 30-ft. embankment and landed on him at the bottom...