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...gasoline up into the wing tanks. Hard work, but nothing compared to the ordeal of last summer when he and Harold Bromley got i.200 mi. from Japan in an attempt flight to the U. S. and then had to fight their way back to shore with a broken exhaust ring spewing carbon mon- oxide gas into the cabin. That put him in a hospital for two months. This navigating business had been his forte since he entered the Royal Australian Naval College at 13. For many years he was a mariner, then studied aerial navigation under famed Lieut. Commander Philip...
...were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows: Bankus Corp. and City Financial Corp., subsidiaries of the Bank of U. S., had a book value of $4,800,000 worth of real estate equities, but owed the parent organization $8.000.000. How were the subsidiaries to pay off? Two dummy organizations, headed...
...Great Madrid Bull Ring," largest in Spain and seating 26,000 bull-fans, was inaugurated last week with the first fight of a series which will last for 14 days "in celebration of the Republic...
...tickled by his fame, Troubadour Downey has no reluctance in stating that he eats three banana splits daily, has a blue chow named Teddy, sleeps raw* in a double bed, calls his wife "Lover," is covered with moles, bleeds easily when shaving. Superstitious, he still carries a cats-eye ring and holy medals for good luck. Because his name appears in their advertisements, he keeps Camels in his pocket and gives them all to friends. Quick-tempered, he once rebuked a famous polo player who was making too much noise in his night club. Shrewd, when Walter Winchell, famed obstetri...
...refused to pay. Finally came the trial of her thieving secretary, Daisy de Boe, who, in the effort to make it seem that her character had suffered from proximity to Cinemactress Bow, revealed that Clara Bow played poker six nights a week, bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring, gave rings and watches to her men friends-of whom Secretary de Boe mentioned Richman, Pierson, Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Rex Bell. A Hollywood publisher of a weekly tabloid, Frederic H. Girnau, then printed Bow anecdotes, was charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. After the case was tried, Cinemactress...