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...gold frame. (President Hoover had sent the Emperor his autographed photograph for a coronation gift.) The meal that followed was a difficult one. President Roosevelt's stomach was still bothering him. The Ras, a Coptic Christian, could eat no meat, milk or butter that day. Mrs. Henry Nesbit, White Housekeeper, served clams, fish, three vegetables, fruit salad, water biscuits, pineapple ice. The Prince passed up the clams. Next day was Emperor Haile Selassie's birthday. The President cabled him: ". . . My most hearty congratulations and best wishes. . . . It has been indeed a gratification and a sincere pleasure to receive...
...himself tore across the finish line, adding second honors to first for his ships. No other planes finished the race. Where were the Gee-Bee's? They had come to grief, and in the same place- Indianapolis. One, piloted by Russell Thaw, 22, modest, handsome son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw, cracked up in landing for fuel. The other cracked up in taking off, mortally injuring its Pilot Russell Boardman. At Los Angeles, Jimmy Wedell won the main events of the next two days at 207 and 209 m.p.h. First mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot...
Died. Charles Jacob ("The Sec") Holman, 70, longtime secretary, later chairman of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No kin to Torch Singer Libby Holman, he was the stepfather of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw...
...Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes, and Mayor Walker...