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...Bob-up Briand. Like one of those teetering round-bottomed toys called a "Bob-up" (feminine "Susy Dam," neuter "Be-ba-bo"), French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand bobbed up next morning, professing to see no rebuke to France in "Uncle Arthur's" speech. Of course France favors Disarmament, he smoothly observed, pointed to a passage in his own speech preceding Mr. Henderson's. He had said that Security must precede Disarmament, added that France has "notably reduced" her armaments on the basis of the partial security, she has already achieved, concluded loudly...
...heroism of the peerless Merriwell, The Dime Novel will concern itself with the adventures of one character. Aware that juvenile readers of today demand something more salty than prep school pranks and last-minute football victories, Author Patten cast about for a 1930 setting for his hero. The result: "Bob Hunter, or The Boss of the Rum Runners." Because, like Merriwell, Bob Hunter must be of eminently sterling worth, he will be enmeshed in illegal activities against his will, his conscience and his judgment. Many of the episodes will deal with the persistent efforts of this Robin Hood...
Died. J. Robert ("Bob") Moran, 45, longtime night city editor of the Atlanta Constitution; at a sanitarium in Atlanta...
...major league team. The lights turned the field to a vividly unreal color, like grass in a postcard, against which the figures of the players stood out sharply three-dimensional. Both teams were hitting well but the red-legged fielders were uncertain judging distances and fumbled. In the fourth Bob Meusel struck out with the bases full. Cincinnati was leading in the last half of the seventh when the Indians made eight runs on four hits, three walks and an error. Final score: Indianapolis 17, Cincinnati...
Jesse Louis Lasky, cineman, one of Colyumist Bob Davis' friends who have been writing his colyum in the New York Sim while he recuperates from an accident (TIME, June 16), revealed that he once wrote and sold to Davis two short stories, which Davis published in Munsey's Magazine which he then edited (1904-1920). Further revelation: the author of "My Brudda Sylvest," oldtime Italian dialect song, was Jesse Louis Lasky...