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...supposed to have worn the same felt hat since the day he arrived. He speaks of the cinema and its moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur's egg in the U. S.; that his wife (Dolores Costello) calls him "Winkie"; that he maintains a large aviary in which his favorite is an ugly vulture named Maloney. Once...
Japanese troops, again advancing (for the fourth time) upon Kiangwan, were held at bay by concealed nests of Chinese machine gunners. Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan...
...Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer...
...Edward R. Tinker would not allow a treacherous female adventurer to pat his shoulder. Nor would he (even to strengthen the financial structure of Fox Film Corp.) impersonate a radio voice to astonish a sandpile millionaire in Asia Minor as a preliminary to smoking imitation hashish through a gasoline pipe...
...National Distillers 372 307 Owens-Illinois Glass 2,744 2,738 Phillips-Jones 1 70 d 249 d R. J. Reynolds 36,396 34,256 Scott Paper 997 986 Standard Fruit 741 10 Union Bag and Paper 112 155d U. S. Radio & Television 801 365 Western Pipe & Steel 767 527 Zonite Products...