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Phil Scott, foul-claiming English heavyweight fighter who lost to Jack Sharkey last March at Miami when Sharkey punched him in the stomach (TIME, March 10), opened a beauty parlor at Thornton Heath, England...
...Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
Among other things hinging on the outcome of Canada's national election (see p. 22) was the future ownership of Canada's principal airways. Both Sir Henry Worth Thornton and Edward Wentworth Beatty, presidents respectively of Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway have intimated that their organizations may acquire part of Western Canada Airways and Canadian Airways. They have, in fact, reached "an agreement in principle." What they actually would do depended greatly upon the nature of Canada's next government...
King George V was toasted in water by the British delegation. Herbert Hoover sent the opening business session his benediction. Sir Henry Worth Thornton, U. S. born chairman and president of Canadian National Railways, made a speech. One day the thermometer registered 99º. Hotel rooms were at a premium. The gilded lobbies of the Stevens Hotel ("World's Largest"), haven for many a convention, were crowded with milling men and women. Funnyman Will Rogers said "Twenty thousand Rotarians walking the streets of Chicago . . . not a one has been shot or robbed. It looks like negligence." The occasion: Rotary...
...Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...