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...Johnny Weismuller in a scene with Lupe Velez (Mrs. Johnny Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances...
...easiest solution would seem to be to bring intercollegiate minor sports back to a sane intramural basis. Too often in the past years has the game been confused with the trophy on the watch chain, or the letter on the chest. Now perhaps is the best time to come back to earth and realize that perhaps sport for its own sake is not an idle dictum...
Captions explained the pictures. The man was a Pilot Erich Kocher. He flew by lung-power, utilizing the rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture...
...Nearest among them to a politician was Manhattan's Frederic Kernochan whom Mayor Walker continued in office as Special Sessions Justice. He has always frequented polite society as few Tammanyites are privileged to do. When in 1932 he sent a check for $50 to Tammany's campaign chest, Tammany returned it to him as "too cheap." Last year he ran for election to the Court of General Sessions on Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion ticket but Tammany managed to beat...
Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...