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...Crookston, Minn., Everett Latta. fisherman, saw a golden eagle soar past him. Everett Latta cast his line, hooked the golden eagle, knocked it off a tree with a chunk of dirt, strangled it to death with his fish line...
...water transportation on the Ohio River. This would shave the cost of hauling coal to Youngstown and Cleveland, perhaps enough to enable Pittsburgh to recapture markets lost to the low-cost producers of the Southern fields. Which meant, of course, that Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson would haul a much smaller chunk of Pittsburgh's 10,000,000-ton annual output. Five years ago the I. C. C. refused Pittsburgh Coal permission to build the 12-½-mi. spur. But in the boardroom of Pittsburgh Coal it was finally decided that I. C. C. permission was superfluous; the spur would...
...president and sole owner is Henry Herbermann, 55, a hard, dark chunk of a man who began life as a tough waterfront youngster in Pennsylvania R. R.'s Jersey City yards, rose to be chief clerk, went into the trucking business, moved a whole German U-boat into Manhattan's Central Park for Liberty Loan speeches, bought up the shipless Export company in 1920 for $65,000. His friends now include Egyptian royalty, from whose stables he has acquired fine Arabian horseflesh (see cut). An older, even more valuable friend, with whom for years he has played poker...
...this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with the aforementioned aid of Barrymore and Wynyard. Unfortunately, for some inexplicable reason, a large chunk of the best scene has been deleted...
...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...