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...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every 5.8 years, prepare for death in the 36th. These chances are based upon the civil air accident record for January-June 1930, published last week by the Department of Commerce...
Ella Wendel lives in the bleak red brick house that stands on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 39th Street, across the street from the (soon-to-pass) Union League Club, one block down from the Public Library, one block up from the famed department store of Lord & Taylor. All day shoppers pass the house by tens of thousands, glance curiously at the shuttered windows, the heavily barred front door. Not for 25 years have those windows or that door been opened. Only the side door is used. The house, which cost $5,000 to build, is assessed today...
...erection of a $350,000 Administration building. . . . first unit of a $4,000,000 program we will execute in 1930." Admitting that Chicago spends $30,000,000 yearly on liquor, half of which is in bribes and pay for professional assassins, he announced that the city is only 39th in the U. S. Census Bureau's murder rating. "Furthermore," said he, "we haven't missed those done away with very badly...
...Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel Atwill as leading man, she toured the country playing Ibsen. For several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director...
...Friday leaving his public in the lurch and since his disappearance many rumors as to his whereabouts have reached Cambridge. One report was that he was seen sneaking around Wall Street late Friday night. Another, from Chicago, was to the effect that he was seen on the corner of 39th and Halstead, straightening out matters with disappointed Windy City fans who are still grumbling about the Cubs' defeat...