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...Manhattan's Customs House last week a large blond man in a blue suit and yachting cap stepped up to the chief clerk of the Collector of the Port, asked for a ship's manifest form. A moment later Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau took oath as master of the flying boat 0-1422, then bobbing at her moorings in the East River after a flight from northern Germany (TIME, Sept. 1). He registered too for his crew of three students from the Deutsches Verkehrs Fliegerschule (German commercial flying school of which he is chief): Eduard Zimmer, copilot; Franz Hack, mechanic...
Rumania's Minister to Jugoslavia made fervent protest in Belgrade last week against a Jugo-Slav operetta, His Majesty in a Bathing Suit, which, said he, was an obvious caricature of the love affairs of King Carol II. King Carol's spectacled brother-in-law. Dictator-King Alexander, ordered the offending scenes censored...
Agile for his 53 years, nose-wiping Mr. Takahashi sprang from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed...
...Safety Razor Co. stock down $15 a share last week, bankers for the company announced that merger negotiations are still being carried on with Auto Strop Safety Razor Co., and if concluded will be presented to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Gillette-Auto Strop merger would settle the suit in which Auto Strop charges that Gillette's new blade is an infringement of Auto Strop's patented Probak blade, it would not end Gillette's troubles. Last week Segal Lock & Hardware Co., potent gadgetmaker, was well along with an advertising campaign for Segal Razor Blade, patents pending. While this...
...Warner ailment was a suit for receivership, brought by a 300-share Boston stockholder who alleged mismanagement and excessive prices paid for real estate and theatres. President Harry M. Warner immediately declared that the suit was solely for the purpose of driving the stock even lower than it has been...