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...flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired Quentin to rough-ride his pony into and through the White House...
...polo while her sister, more nearly a novice, was the more eager to display her speed & brilliance. Charles B. Lanier, their father, the son of Poet Sidney Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping at the Stamford Show, standing beside their ponies at Westchester, watching the hunters at Piping Rock, began many years ago to appear in Rider and Driver, Town and Country, and the chatter supplements of Manhattan newsrags. Sally, two years...
Because whatever Mr. Young says is heeded by businessmen, the street car operators at Cleveland last week hoped to get all their communities to permit fares increased to between 8 and 11? a ride...
...late Morris Schinasi, Eurasian Jew who migrated to the U. S. 35 years ago and gained wealth as a maker of Turkish cigarets, kept a glamorous fondness for his birthplace. The town was Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions...
...accomplishment. Last week the bus system was extended to Manhattan, 3,433 highway miles from Los Angeles, and there was much to do. A Mrs. C. A. Jondro of Los Angeles, one of the four persons who made the whole journey (in 5 days, 14 hours), declared the ride more comfortable than by train and "more chummy. . . . We had a portable radio and perfect service...