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...cost Chattanooga, Tenn. $25,000 to entertain the 700 oldsters who attended the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans last year. Last week U. C. V.'s 1935 reunion city, St. Petersburg, Fla., decided that the cost was too great, withdrew its invitation. Only three other Southern towns wanted the veterans and all were too small...
Switches clicked, the lathe-like machines began to hum. Seventeen minutes later in each of the 24 offices an operator opened the machine, withdrew a large cylinder, rushed it to a dark room. Another few minutes and the finished photograph of the wrecked airplane was on editors' desks around a 10,000 mi. circuit. Thus last week Associated Press inaugurated its new $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto service (TIME...
...college officials are able to determine, only 17 students withdrew during the year for financial reasons, and in many cases there were other contributing factors such as a low record and lack of interest in work...
...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Rafael Lopez de Onate, 38, film, actor; in the home of a friend in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Senator McAdoo, who previously had threatened to cut off his daughter's $1,000-a-month allowance (TIME, Nov. 5), withdrew his objections but did not attend the wedding...