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...legal tender. Most amusing was the Battle of the Bands. On the frontier near Innsbruck stands a great mountain, the Zugspitze. Up the Bavarian side clambered a sweating, puffing Nazi brass band. Up the other side went the band of Vienna's favorite Deutschmeister regiment. Near the summit both bands proceeded to frighten eagles from their eyries by blaring Nazi and Austrian patriotic songs, simultaneously...
...flower is a work of art, an orchid is a masterpiece. A piece of the world's rarest single orchid plant bloomed last week in Summit, N. J. bearing three beautiful, pure white flowers. Two hard-bitten old orchid hunters, John Lager and Henry Hurrell, hastily summoned the Press to marvel...
...Avenue house (along with other Clevelanders who shared his faith ) but at his country home in nearby Northfield a butler still answers the door, stable boys mind the horses and a half-dozen gardeners putter around the 200-acre estate, and he is still Master of Hounds at the Summit Hunt Club. He has a small office in vastly-deflated Otis & Co., his old investment banking firm, but his business activities, if any, are a mystery to Cleveland...
...this point Cinematographer Bonnett doubled up with a severe pain in his stomach. What he should have done, as his companion observer did do, was to pop his head out of the cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours...
...Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial orchid exhibit...