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...fine and keeping her dogs, or paying $1 and turning them over to Mrs. McLaughlin. At this verdict, Mrs. Whittle collapsed. Mrs. McLaughlin and her lawyer tried to soothe her (see cut), but she would not be comforted until she had clasped each little Scottie to her breast in fond farewell...
...drinks lemon juice before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans signed a petition...
...Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon to have "frequently eaten heartily, as both are fond of food, and wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show her to be by no means her former dumpling self (see cut). She and Benno have zipped and roared around Europe in a $15,200 silver-finished...
...Porter, young Randolph Hearst delighted Atlanta youngbloods by leasing for living quarters half a floor in the swank northside Biltmore Apartments, buying a 12-cylinder Packard, an English Austin, a twin-engined cabin monoplane, learning to fly. Six feet tall, broad-shouldered, small-hipped, expert squash and softball player, fond of dancing, blond, brown-eyed Randolph Hearst reports for work at 7:30 a. m., eats democratically and heartily with his fellow workers at a nearby lunchroom, is free to play after...
...Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty sent him to Texas at 24 to see what he could do with himself...