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...used to be the Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
...happy career of W. C. Fields's famed unlighted cigar. Baby LeRoy, now 19 months old, has taken up walking since his first picture, A Bedtime Story, but remains incapable of speech. To make him cry, his director orders Baby LeRoy to blow his nose. He has the longest contract without options in Hollywood ; it was signed by his grand mother because his widowed mother, Mrs. LeRoy Winebrenner of Altadena, Calif., was only 16. Actor LeRoy works two hours a day, in seven-minute intervals. At 10:30 a. m. he takes a nap. Like most featured players...
...capita debt of $206.74 (five times that of Chicago)-for borrowing was the easiest way for Tammany to provide plenty of pork for the city pork barrel without arousing citizens by putting high taxes higher or making the working man pay more than 5? for the world's longest subway ride. Last spring came the season of reckoning. The banks grew niggardly of further loans, the market value of the city's bonds began to slip, the city found it all but impossible to raise the extra $5,000,000 a month required over and above Tammany...
...Brooklyn Naval Hospital where Captain Butler is commanding officer, he keeps a stack of logs and a collection of axes. Some axes are single-bitted, some double-bitted. Others are firemen's axes. The axes which Captain Butler uses are short-helved 3½ or 4 pounders. Longest convenient length for ax and handle is 16 in. A greater length interferes with the tumble of the ax on its way from hand to target...
Married. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 23, son of the shipping, brewing, real estate and publishing tycoon of the same name who died last month leaving $75,000.000 and the longest will in British history ('TIME. July 24; Aug. 28); and Esther de Sola of Montreal; in London...