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Biggest airplane ever built in the U. S., equally at home in air, water and on land, the 8-42 gave Pan American Airways plenty of cause for pride last week. But prouder than Pan American, was the mild, soft-spoken man who had designed and built this monster of the air out of a boyhood dream...
Tweeds have come off the golf course into the drawing room, are now correct for tea. Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn...
...model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen...
...ordered surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most...
Thrifty Scots much prefer a drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch...