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...Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian mountain, wore blue jeans, sadly observed: "Dancing partners aren't what they used...
Robert H. Atkinson, Paul R. Balcom, Raymond S. Balzer, Peter A. Brooke, Silas H. Bunce, Jr., Dustin M. Burke, James J. Byrne, William R. Campbell, Wendell L. Carduff, Donald J. Cass, William G. Cummings, Jr., Carroll E. Dolan, Richard C. Farrington, William D. Fitzpatrick, William B. Frothingham, Jr., Lewis Gordon, Jr., David J. Hanson, John L. Harding, William D. Healey, Jr., Charles L. Hill, William S. Holbrook 3d, John W. Ingraham, Joseph J. Jablonski, William W. Jones, William A. Julian 4th, Donal J. Kaderabek, Robert L. Kendall, Jr., Gregory Kollegian, Gene W. Krick, Carroll M. Lowenstein (captain), Kostas Mathew, Stanley...
Along the line such men as tackles Bill Holbrook, Fred Raverby, Bob Thompson, and Pete Hill; guards Bob Moulla, Lew Gordon, and Paul Balcom; and center Bill Frothingham are imposing. Even if the team never does get started, which is doubtful, these and other Freshmen will be well worth watching...
...picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo...
...height. The highest wind velocity Mr. Young and his subcommittee found was at the top of Mt. Washington, N. H. where the wind blew 186 m.p.h. A skyscraper built atop Mt. Washington would have to withstand a pressure of 102 Ib. per sq. ft. Homer Gage Balcom, Manhattan consulting engineer, told assembled engineers that Professor Clyde Tucker Morris of Ohio State University is conducting experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure on the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building is more than 4,000,000 Ib. Seven per cent...