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...convicted in Federal court of violating the Dyer Act. Judge Woodward, believing Hoffman no criminal, gave him probation instead of jail, with the following provisions: 1) Remain within 50 miles of Davenport; 2) Hold his job: 3) Sell his car and buy no new one; 4) Not pleasure ride; 5) Not drink liquor; 6) Not gamble; 7) Report to Judge Woodward each & every theatre, restaurant and building he enters on trips (only one per month) to visit his Chicago relatives...
...pilot tunnel proves successful, contract for the main tunnels, at an estimated additional cost of $125,000,000 to be awarded to private enterprise with an understanding that the operating company would not charge much more than $5 per passenger for the 20-mile tunnel ride...
...lawless no-man's-land between Texas and Oklahoma which in the '80s was a. wilderness of free cattle range. In Cimarron Author Ferber tells how the Territory was settled; how it became gradually civilized, then suddenly rich from its oil. Now full-blood Osage Indians, bemillioned overnight, ride blanketed in limousines and leave them where they smash...
...Cleopatra in 'The House Boat on the Styx' I had a room below the stage and just before I was supposed to go on I was covered with a shower of dust from above so that you couldn't tell whether I was very badly tanned from my ride in the barge or just plain Topsy." Her final remark was in Italian, or perhaps it was Spanish. But she said it in such a disarming tone of voice that, whatever the meaning might have been, didn't matter...
Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...