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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These sensations were described by the only man who has experienced them, Sir Malcolm ("Mike") Campbell, just after he made 253.9 m.p.h. the world's automobile speed record, at Daytona Beach last year. They are sensations which, combined with the anticipation of an immediate and violent death, might seem unpleasant. Sir Malcolm Campbell minded them little enough to go again last month to Daytona Beach, with bigger Rolls-Royce engines than ever in his Blue Bird, to see how much faster he could go. Last week, after long waiting for wind and tides to make the beach sufficiently smooth...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., thieves stole $15,000 worth of jewels and furs from the home of Benjamin Warner, father of the three Warner Brothers. In Miami Beach, Fla., Soprano Grace Moore said that $81,500 worth of her jewelry had been stolen...
...Palm Beach season swung into its second week. Closed for the first time in 40 years was the Royal Poinciana, world's largest wooden hotel. The Breakers did a nice business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue...
...world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet winners are eligible to compete...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...