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...settle down to the business of climbing. The Cyclone is getting rough. A bit of heat in the carburetor and a little tinkering with the air mixture. It's smooth again. At 18,000 feet the cold is growing disagreeable...
...children assembled in a theatre, took part in the President's party for the White House office staff, another party in the East room for the White Household staff, and attended a Christmas party of the Salvation Army. Her activities during the rest of the week were every bit as strenuous. Most notable of them was her "Gridiron Widows" party, which she instituted three years ago for newshens and grass widows of all those attending the Gridiron Dinner...
...name is Su-lin, which means a-little-bit-of-something-cute," Mrs. Harkness explained. Su-lin had one tooth cut aboard the President McKlnley. Shivering newshawks watched her grasp the bottle in her paws, jerk off the nipple, suck Mrs. Harkness' ear lobe...
...heard an-other Mary of Scotland, another eloquent Anderson sermon about the depths of human love and human perfidy. Less impressionable people found Playwright Anderson off form this time, deplored his tendency toward purple prolixity wished he might comb the abundant and unruly skeins of his verse a bit more carefully instead of trying to turn out two or three masterpieces a year. Promised within the next month are his High Tor, to be presented by Actress Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic, and The Masque of Kings, to be produced by the Theatre Guild...
...Spiciest bit was a memorandum found in the files of George F. Baker, Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, which Senator Wheeler read into the rec ord. It related a telephone conversation in March 1935 in which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being...