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...When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...
...Priest of horse-sense" to George Ade, he lived to see his fashion fade. But Walt achieved a modest pile before his stuff went out of style, retired to California's sun to rest until his time was done...
...Walt Mason, wise and meek, as to all men, came Death last week...
...Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Games film (four hours running time) and to Vittorio Mussolini's Luciano Serra, Pilota, an ecstatic drama of Italian wings over Ethiopia. Walt Disney's world favorite, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was favored with a special Hors Concours (out of competition) Medal...
...Foods and Beverages Building visitors can 1) inspect a 1,000 Ib. Exposition Cake; 2) see National Biscuit Co.'s Mickey Mouse in color-the only commercial film Walt Disney has made; 3) watch Hills Bros.' color film on the making of coffee and, whenever a cup of it is flashed on the screen, sniff aromatic coffee fumes blown at them from ventilating machines...