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Developed by Autogiro Co. of America, the new giro is the product of many extraordinary recent improvements on the bastard airplane with rotors whose crude ancestor Inventor Juan de la Cierva first made hover in the air 13 years ago. The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance...
...Bastard son of an Irish cavalry officer and the young Scottish wife of a depraved Spanish diplomat (Claude Rains), Anthony spends his boyhood in a Leghorn convent. At 10 he is apprenticed to and given his last name by the Scottish merchant who by a happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper...
...plume for Zenith's past, staying power and present rewards belongs to resourceful President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked...
...from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman suddenly confessed what had long been suspected: that he had been redheaded Mrs. Muench's lover, that she had persuaded him that the "Gift of God" baby was theirs. It had cost him $16,000, said Dr. Pitzman. "Your Honor...
Actress Cornell has surrounded herself with a high-powered troupe of actors, among them Brian Aherne, Charles Waldron, Arthur Byron. Another excellent performance is turned in by Kent Smith as Dunois, the''Bastard of Orleans. He it is who witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that...