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...regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided to get out and go to the movies instead...
...returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living room, a dining room, an American walnut bar, a stained-glass window. He spent $4,200 for leather-bound volumes of Scott. Dickens, Thackeray. Once he paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York...
...nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark's tough hide, the shark leather industry began to grow. Sharkman Young has spent most of his time since then supplying raw material. With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes...
...Golham House ($4); half-bound in shark leather...
Alfred Dunhill was not always pipemaker to the House of Windsor. Originally he satisfied a penchant for modest yachting and the blending of fine tobaccos from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business. He bought the third automobile ever imported into Britain, built up a private collection of pipes second only to that in the British Museum. After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies. In 1905, he sold out his Dunhill Motorities with its slogan of "Everything...