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...transport industry has press-agented the Press into a sentimental atti tude toward aviation. If its seamy side were known, the public would demand safety legislation (i.e. parachutes) just as it demanded and got safety laws for railroads and steamships...
...used to receiving kudos (he has one LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh), Lecturer Chesterton accepted the honor with the following words: "Gratitude is the only thing worth expressing on an occasion of this kind, but it is one of the ironies of human nature that grati tude can never be fully and completely expressed in words. My sense of unworthiness is so acute that I cannot describe...
...Million Dollars. Surveying Mr. Bennett as a potent figure who may soon become Prime Minister, he is seen to be courageous, rich and righteous. Born in the Province of New Brunswick, he early showed a passion for industry and recti tude. While other little boys and girls were at play, he read and later studied. Today at 60, though he can be genial, he has not yet learned to play...
Magda Dimitrescu was also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...
Paris. In the sale of the Michel Levy collection, Fragonard's Terrace Villa Réals brought 275,000 francs; Farmhouse, 115,000 francs; Head of a Philosopher, 415,000 francs. Watteau's Étude pour la Famille brought 260,000 francs; Enchanted Island, 475,000 francs; Enseigne de Gersaint, 470,000 francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait...