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Money, glory and friendship are trying bedfellows. Money and glory are always heavily involved in transoceanic airplane flights. Few observers were greatly surprised last week to learn that the friendship of Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, like that of many another flying team, was no more...
Denver's zoo is not far from Capitol Hill, where solid Denver citizens have their homes. Such citizens Zoo Superintendent Clyde Hill would not wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill...
...they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
...Clyde workers, Cunard officials and shareholders were not the only ones who mourned No. 534's plight. In the House of Commons, Clydebank Laborites raged because the Government did not help keep their constituents at work. President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade was as sorry as anyone, admitted that he had been informed that building would have to be stopped but that in discussions Cunard officials the question of direct Government assistance had never raised. "I fear if it had been," sadly he. "there would have been no hop this case.'' He did consider, however...
...accounted one of the three brightest boys in Chicago (the others: Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon, Howard Hackett). From a reporter on Chicago's Record George Ade rose to the level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known as Purdue's patron saint...