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Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back...
...King George "like a long-lost brother" at the Royal Garden Party which closed the Silver Jubilee (TIME, Aug. 12). Mr. Morgan, who bought Genochy in County Angus four years ago for grouse shooting, was reported by terse Scots to have "acting as his hostess" Lady Elphinstone, the buxom Duchess of York's vivacious sister. Grizzled Host Morgan himself shot no grouse, strolled about the moors with the shooting Duke of York, conversed with animation. Scots reported that as usual male guests received from Mr. Morgan lengths of suiting from the native tweedery nearby...
...Buxom Mistress Magda Lupescu lent her bullet-proof U. S. sedan to King Carol last week and His Majesty sent it down to Sinaia Station to fetch the Regent of Yugoslavia, esthetic Prince Paul, who arrived by special train from Belgrade. Up for discussion were Archduke Otto's chances of restoration as Austrian Emperor (TIME, July...
...because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace of mind and Author Bromfield's cinemarty ending, the girl who had given his house its sentimental associations appeared at this point-buxom and widowed now, but bristling with Gallic sense. She gave Tom a good talking to, sent him back to the U.S. to marry his long-suffering mistress...
...scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel by dismissing its Board of Regents...