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Twain and Pigeon. Tesla's experiments, few of them ever finished, were financed by such backers as J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, John Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
...street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise...
...Hollywood when the Mary Astor divorce story broke, Florabel got a call from the Daily News to cover it. She promptly bought the Astor diary for $500, made the trial the sizzling success of the '30s. Her other top stories were the Pantages, Clara Bow, the Errol Flynn and Chaplin trials. On the Chaplin story Florabel went to see Joan Berry at the Beverly Hills police station, advised her to retain Attorney Jack Irwin, thereby sewed up the best source. Other reporters rewrote her, or didn't write...
Died. Reginald Langhorne (Pete) Brooks, 42, New York socialite, flying enthusiast, nephew of British M.P. Lady Nancy Astor; in his Miami Shores, Fla. home, presumably by suicide. In 1933 he married Aline Rhonie Bamberger, set off on a 17,000 mile aerial honeymoon flying his own plane, his bride another "because both liked to do the piloting." They were divorced...
Married. British Army Major John Jacob Astor, 26, youngest son of out spoken Tory M.P. Lady Astor (without her approval) ; and Anna Inez ("Chiquita") Carcano, 23, vivacious daughter of the Argentine Ambassador to Britain; in London...