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...organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel of his dinner jacket. Guggenheim says that as a boy he .had three ambitions: to win the English Derby, to marry a pretty woman and to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He never won the Derby, gave up trying years ago. His fourth wife, Polly, is blonde and pretty...
...year's review of tariff policy could arrive at basic and practicable conclusions after a conference with any schoolboy who has studied elementary economics. Europe is crying for prompt removal of American tariff barriers so that, by earning dollars, she might ease out of the American-aid strait jacket...
...Humboldt River as a big buyer of ranches. A fellow of the same name was remembered as a big real-estate operator around Lake Tahoe. A good many people in Reno were familiar with a Biltz too-a stocky, blue-eyed fellow with iron-grey hair, a Hollywood jacket and Humphrey Bogart gestures who didn't seem to have anything better to do than hang around the Riverside Hotel. But since Biltz doesn't like his name in the paper (and seldom has to see it there), few connected all the Biltzes into one fabulous whole...
...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...
...Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty laughter discloses strong, white teeth. He dresses in the simple jacket and slacks of the peasant." If Communist Correspondent Starobin could be believed, President Ho Chi Minh was at least still alive...