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...shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, warned the nation on Prince George's 27th birthday, "that his digestion is weak and, what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their way around South America without seasickness, quaffed many a beaker without indigestion...
...Received from the Pensions Committee a bill to give Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, widow of the 27th President of the U. S., a $5,000 annuity...
Other major orchestras are scheduled to give their first programs this week: The Chicago Symphony with Conductor Frederick Stock beginning his 27th season; the Cincinnati Symphony with Eugene Goossens beginning his first; the Seattle Symphony with Karl Krueger. Next week will begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Artur Rodzinski, the Minneapolis Symphony with Henri Verbrugghen, the St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir Golschmann, the Milwaukee Philharmonic with Frank Laird Waller. Rochester, N. Y. with different guest conductors, Portland, Ore. (Willem van Hoogstraten), Omaha (Joseph Littau) and Syracuse (Vladimir Shavitch) save their openings for November...
...boardwalk, wore nothing but a one-piece bathing suit of light, bright green. Police raided Ray Martin's bar, arrested Ray Martin, clapped him into jail. For 26 days Ray Martin languished in jail with no other clothing than his light, bright green bathing suit. On the 27th day he borrowed a duster, went to court, pleaded guilty, was fined...