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Less than a year ago General Airplanes Corp. (A. J. Brandt, president), began business in Buffalo. Already it has sold more than $1,000,000 worth of its Aristocrats and Surveyors. It counts on selling $3,000,000 worth this year. Commander Byrd took an Aristocrat to Antarctica...
Died. Helen Resch, 20, Viennese actress, mistress of Prince Ernest Windischgraetz, 24, grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef; by suicide (gas), in Vienna. The Prince's engagement to an opulent aristocrat had just been announced. Miss Resch also asphyxiated her baby, her mother...
...England aristocrat, while another owned a small automobile agency in Missouri. One peg had been worn smooth with a quarter-century's public service, while another had never been outside the steel business. Two pegs were frankly politicians, stuck in as rewards for services rendered, and for convenience in services to come. Two others had snugly filled their holes for eight years under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. One peg was an old college friend, another a Democrat except in Presidential elections...
Marble is the aristocrat of sculptural materials. Like an aristocrat it is sumptuous but brittle. Subjected to undue stresses it splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...
...reign of terriers, which had lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager of Braddock, Pa.; fifth...