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William Kissam Vanderbilt gave his $3,000,000 yacht, the Alva (named for his mother), to the U.S. Navy. Alva has a ventilating system that changes the air every four minutes...
Died. Edwin S. Porter, 71, pioneer motion-picture inventor and producer; after long illness; in Manhattan. A collaborator with Thomas Alva Edison in the development of the motion-picture camera, Inventor Porter lived to participate in important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller...
...have some 500 buildings, a 17-care assembly & repair shop, a 6,300-ft. seawall, 24 miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within a 15-mile radius of the main station...
...exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature...
...Indian Owner Alva Bradley, Bob Feller is an excellent investment. On days when Feller is scheduled to pitch, ballpark attendance swells 50% to 200%. Last week, when Robert William Andrew Feller signed his contract for the coming season, Owner Bradley grinned from ear to ear. "You can safely say," he told newshawks, "that Feller's salary is the highest that has ever been paid a pitcher." Sportswriters, well aware that Lefty Grove's 1931 salary of $27,500 was baseball's all-time pitching high, promptly set Feller's salary...