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...pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French Open Golf championship at Deauville, with a 291. Tied for second were Argentine Thomas Genta, Percy Alliss. British pro for the Wannsee Golf Club, Berlin...
...Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will take $8,000,000 off the 1932 budget. Next Departments for presidential pruning: Agriculture, Post Office, Treasury. ¶Last week President Hoover engaged a new literary secretary to replace French Strother, resigned. He was George Aubrey Hastings, 46, of New York, oldtime newshawk and press agent. His title will be Executive Clerk instead of Administrative Assistant and he will do the research and "ghostwriting" the President requires for public pronouncements, in addition to supervising the President's quasi-official conferences and commissions on child health...
...Purcell-Jones, apparently another member of Britain's languid gentry, contributed a roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...
...when he graduated from McMaster's University (Toronto) and descended upon the U. S., settling in Cleveland. In this first excursion there was, however, no quest for a golden fleece. Mr. Eaton's sole purpose in coming to Cleveland was to join an uncle, Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton,* in spreading the Baptist Gospel, although he himself was never ordained...
Among the attractive features of this novel are the illustrations of the talented Zhenya Gay. She makes use of a style reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. It fits in with the type work harmoniously...