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When his ship nosed into Rio's mountain-shadowed harbor last week the port was reverberant with welcoming din. Airplanes cavorted about. A great passenger plane, with 14 people, half of them national notables, almost struck another machine; the pilot veered, weakened a wing, went into a tail spin; the plane splashed into the water; all 14 were drowned. Rio's din ceased. Flyer Santos-Dumont walked from his ship, head down, depressed...
Only at Viña del Mar, famed seaside resort, may one roulette wheel spin with Governmental & Presidential sanction...
...each for the privilege of sitting at the "ring" and trading in silk futures Chief among them, youngest of Manhattan exchange presidents, is 37-year-old Paolino Gerli, scion of a long line of silk importers. His early training took him to Japan, where indifferent silkworms spin out 75% of the world's supply. Now he is vice president of E. Gerli & Co., largest of U. S importers, doing an annual business...
...GENERAL'S RING?Selma Lagerlof ?Doubleday Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold...
Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...