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Senator Key Pittman of Nevada stepped out of an airplane to a rickety platform, broke his leg, went as a patient to the Washington hospital whither he had been hurrying to visit his wife. Her ailment : a broken leg. She broke it while inspecting work on their new house in Washington. Reason for a new house: their old one caught fire twice last year...
...York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull...
...loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page...
Thebaud stood into the tide. It was an ebb tide, running strong, but when she turned she had it full on her beam, washing her toward the mark. The seas were lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...
...line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth?winning first place with 98 points...