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...World War museum, a haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier...
Last August I was a dinner guest of Mrs. McLean at a place somewhere in the Rois in Paris. On that evening Mrs. McLean wore the Hope Diamond as a pendant to a string of pearls. I not only looked at it but held it in my hand and examined it carefully. Since then I have neither lost my life, nor my mind, nor my appetite. On the contrary, I am quite O.K., and my luck has steadily improved. I don't know how to explain that, except maybe the evil influence was off duty on that particular evening...
Strongly suspecting that this was merely some new and devious trick of SEC itself, Mr. Jones called his lawyers, who advised him to keep the Federal employe on the string until a trap could be sprung. While stalling for time Mr. Jones beat down his price to $27,500. First installment was to be paid on the Sabbath...
Swarthy M. Laval with his white string tie* had seemed the logical choice when his tall chief, Pierre Etienne Flandin, was overthrown after asking the restive Chamber for "full powers" in a speech decidedly too long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate...
...spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Muslems, the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's Daughter Fatima, an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. He is so fond of pleasure that in the last five years his string of race horses, whose upkeep costs him $150,000 a year, have won nearly every important race in Europe, and become, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables in the U. S., the most valuable in the world. Though he rules no territory, the Aga Khan earned the gratitude...