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...copyright laws and prevent printing, Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. printed twelve copies of the book, deposited two with the Library of Congress, as the law requires, offered the remainder for sale at $500,000 each. The ten books, kept in the vault of the Nassau County Trust Co. in Mineola. L. I., are not displayed by the publisher in accordance with Lawrence's will, although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading one of the two copies in the Library of Congress was one of the most fortunate of book reviewers, since...
...neck of a lamb received at Armour & Co.'s packing plant at Omaha last week was a note: "This is Billy; take good care of him." On the back of the note was a picture of Billy and his one-time owner, Marian Leaders, 4, of Mineola, Iowa, who had raised him on a bottle. An Armour employe promised that Billy would "never know a moment of pain." In the slaughterhouse, Billy, like hundreds of others of his kind, was strung up by his heels on a moving chain. A muscular butcher seized his head, twisted...
Left. By the late Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, divorced in 1927 from Manhattan Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt: an estate of $6,765,972; in Mineola, N. Y. It was found that she owed her onetime husband $14,945 in overpaid alimony...
Died. Earle Lewis Ovington, 57, first commissioned U. S. air mail pilot; after long illness; in Los Angeles. In 1911 he flew a mail sack two miles from Garden City to Mineola, L. I. on nine successive days...
...giant loudspeaker stood on the roof of a hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...