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...four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait in oils of Hans Holbein the Younger, was last valued at $100,000 and is held for much more than that by the firm of Elkan & Abraham Silberman...
...ABRAHAM BAUM Bronx...
...result of his experiments, Professor Abraham Myerson of Tufts College Medical School (Boston) last week was able to advise members of the American Psychological Association, meeting at Dartmouth College, to prescribe benzedrine to gloomy, anhedonic individuals who contemplate suicide. On them the drug has a "very remarkable influence." Benzedrine also has "very interesting and favorable results in a good many of those normal and quasi-normal [such as hangover] states where the individual has not had sufficient rest or is depressed in the morning...
From Buffalo, Governor Landon turned homeward, made 15 rear-platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri. In Springfield he paid a duty call at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. In St. Louis he obeyed another political tradition by publicly kissing a baby, 17-month old Joyce Rushing, daughter of a Carterville, Ill. barber, and exclaiming, "My, what a fine, fat baby...
With free quotations from the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, Gerry McGeer won seats in the British Columbia Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and the mayoralty of Vancouver with the biggest majority in history. Since the rise of Alberta's Social Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery...