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...brought out Radio Guide and Baltimore Brevities (for the last they were all indicted for sending obscene matter through the mails). Annenberg also bought an interest in the Morning Telegraph, a Manhattan daily devoted to the tracks and the theatre. He is also supposed to have built up a string of newsagencies throughout the country...
Five camps were visited up & down the Shenandoah Valley. His guides wanted to show the President the oldest and best but he was more interested in seeing the newest and least dressy. At Big Meadows he stopped to lunch with the woodsters. Menu: fried steak, string beans, mashed potatoes, iced tea. tomato salad, apple cobbler. Declared the President: "All you have to do is to look at you boys to see that the camps are a success. I wish I could take a couple of months off and live here myself. The only difficulty would be that you men have...
Died. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...
...announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder than Marlene Dietrich, planned to stop sending its feature pictures to outlying districts before they have been screened in Paramount's pretentious string of urban theatres...
...wanted. Speed Kid Williams built a hangar on an old sugar canefield on his estate and Jimmy Wedell went to work. Before he was through Mr. Williams dropped a half million dollars, but he had his money's worth last year when Wedell-Williams speedsters hung up a string of records, including a transcontinental record of 10 hr. 19 min. in the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles-New-York). Last week three sleek Wedell-Williams ships were pitted against two chunky Gee Bee's at the start of the Bendix. (Also there were two women in Lockheeds, Amelia Earhart...