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...brilliant campaigner. Mayor Dore's best stunt was to print handbills closely resembling dollar bills. They bore a picture of Franklin Roosevelt, were marked in each corner "One Vote," carried the legend "Tax Levy 1931, $10.010.408.01, Tax Levy 1933, $5,289,983.87. Dollars...
...share of fighting against his fellow-Christians, he never got farther than Cyprus. There he brought off his most dangerous coup by eloping with the Princess Xene, captive of Richard Coeur de Lion. Xene was the daughter of a deposed Emperor of New Rome (Constantinople), so the son she bore Peire Vidal was a claimant to the throne. In New Rome disaster finally overtook Troubadour Vidal. In the sack of the city by the Crusaders (1204) his wife and son were killed and he lost his reason. Years later, when he was about to be put to death...
Your issue of Feb. 12 gives credit to a rainy football game of 1923 for the baptism of "Ducky" Pond, whereas . . . The Hill students of that time know that he bore the name "Duck" when he was helping Hotchkiss beat The Hill some three or four years before...
...President was a very good subject, a very willing sitter. All told we had about eight sittings. . . . Sometimes he received callers during the sittings, but I liked that. It made for a more natural expression. He was really very patient about it." As originally painted the portrait bore the famed Roosevelt smile. The President would have none of it, demanded that the smile be wiped off. So Mrs. Rand painted a new straight-lipped mouth which nobody seemed to like. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt went in to view the portrait wearing its third mouth. "Oh! I like it very much...
...Stubs, One who was arrested last week was the dead swindler's wife, lovely dark-haired Mme Stavisky. A onetime dress model known as Arlette Simon, she married Swindler Stavisky shortly after the police raided a gay little dinner they both attended in the suburbs in 1926, bore him two handsome children, and acquired some of the finest clothes, the richest jewels in Paris...