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Long before New Year's daylight John W. Hunefeld arose in his Washington home on C street, put on his salt-and-pepper suit, breakfasted quickly, and set forth through dark streets for the White House. He would do no odd jobs of painting and-carpentering that day. He was going to meet the President...
...fear as it flocked to hear Yehudi Menuhin, 12, in his first violin concert since his year abroad (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928; Jan, 7, 1929). Reluctantly many noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly...
...June 1928, he began proceedings in the common pleas court, Philadelphia, for reinstatement in the Episcopalian ministry. The suit is still pending. Last year he went abroad to stump for Britain's Labor Party. Lately he has been preaching at St. Columba's Church, Hull, England. Last week the Rev. Canon Edward Arthur Berry, Vicar of Drypool, went to tall, bald, sleek Preacher Richmond, prevailed on him to stop preaching at St. Columba's. Said he to inquirers: "I felt he was too emotional and too excitable. My sole reason was I did not think...
...Another suit pending against Collier's by Rentfro Banton Creager, "redheaded rooster of the Rio Grande," Republican National Committeeman for Texas; $1,000,000 damages for alleged untruths about political dirty work in Hidalgo County, Tex. (TIME, Sept...
...Guggenheim Fund Safe Aircraft Competition, passed all its preliminary tests last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. It enters the finals with only one possible rival, a Handley-Page biplane similar in many respects to the Curtiss entry. Both planes have automatic wing slots. Frederick Handley Page has filed suit in Brooklyn for triple the amount of any prize the Tanager may win. He claims that the Curtiss plane is using wing slots on which he has a patent, without his warrant. The Curtiss company is expected to file counteraction claiming infringement of six basic patents by Handley Page...