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Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions...
...Thomas Alva Edison's edifying and profitable kinetoscope celebrated a quiet, wartime soth anniversary with a national day's box office of about $3,000,000. Its first box office, in a converted Broadway shoe store, on the Saturday evening of April 14, 1894, sold $120 worth of admissions. Since then the movies have developed in many directions. Last week's sourest note in the movie business was struck when...
Charles Edison (see cut), ex-Governor of New Jersey, son of the late, great Thomas Alva Edison, was elected national chairman by United China Relief. As head of the fund which in 1943 sent $8,683,870 to war-torn China, onetime Secretary of the Navy Edison succeeds the late Manhattan Lawyer Frederick Hill (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine &) Wood. Said Edison: "The Chinese people have purchased time for all their allies with space of their country and blood of their people...
...only one year (1918-19). In 1904 he started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard for his master's papers, and could legally have skippered a Queen Mary in any ocean...