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...Street was not a convention town. But Swope had only begun. He gave a private luncheon at the Biltmore. For guests he had Frank Munsey, owner of three metropolitan papers, Morgan J. O'Brien (former Presiding Justice Appellate Division, N. Y. Supreme Court), A. C. Pearson, George Edgar Smith, "Tex" Rickard (fight promoter), Joseph P. Day (real estate man and auctioneer) and others of equal prominence. Why did these men come at his call? Perhaps the answer is Great Neck, L. I., where Swope has his home. There he holds great croquet parties. There he gathers his disciples?Arthur Krock...
...Dallas, Tex. Bishop Moore stated that the Rev. Lee W. Heaton would not be brought to trial for heresy "at this time" because certain persons of higher ecclesiastical rank in the Episcopal Church apparently shared Mr. Heaton's views. Bishop Moore's action points again...
Spalla had an agreement with Tex Rickard to fight Gene Tunney in New York, Feb. 1. By sailing for South America he showed himself to be a poor business man. Flattened by Firpo, he will be no drawing card...
Died. Martha Mansfield, cinema actress, 23, in San Antonio, Tex. The flimsy, hoopskirted Civil War costume which she wore as leading woman in The Warrens of Virginia took fire from a smoker's match. She appeared in other cinemas (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Perfect Lover, Potash and Perlmutter...
...simply of the 35 elements now called radioactive. Practically all substances, in varying degree, are throwing off particles and undergoing gradual transformation into other substances, he believes. But, as with uranium this may be a process of five billion years, the changes are imperceptible. At Kelly Field, Tex., Dr. Millikan sent up kites, sometimes as high as ten miles, with automatic machines attached which detected rays more powerful even than the X-rays or the "gamma" rays of radium. These rays did not come from the sun, because they were active night and day. Apparently they came from space...