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John Daniel Hertz, Albert Davis Lasker and William Wrigley Jr. were elected to the board of Paramount Publix Corp. Mr. Hertz, retired founder of Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, will be chairman of the finance committee. Asked whether he had a financial interest in Paramount, Gumman Wrigley last week exulted: "I've been buying Paramount Publix stock for a long time, and I intend to buy a lot more. Just this morning I bought 5,000 shares. I don't know exactly how much...
Nikki the aviators continue their attempts to improve their states of minds by antics with cab-horses, hotel elevators, the furniture in Nikki's apartment. Their final and most disastrous escapade is a trip to Lisbon. Here one of the aviators jumps into a bull ring and is gored to death by the bull. Another shoots a disagreeable reporter and runs away after the shooting. A third, accidentally hit by a bullet, expires in theatrical fashion, seated in a horse-cab. The fourth aviator (Richard Barthelmess) is left with Nikki...
...famed catcher for the Chicago Cubs, is now a buyer in Chicago's Union Stockyards. Last week he saw two men tumble unconscious from the driver's seat of a truck whose cargo of hogs he was appraising. Aware that they had been riding in an enclosed cab, Buyer Archer guessed they had carbon monoxide poisoning, applied prone pressure (artificial respiration), revived both men in a half hour. The National Safety Council pinned its President's Medal upon Jimmy Archer...
...light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer was nearly over his patience and self-control were shaky. Of course he fell in love...
...Checker Cab...