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...putt-putt industry has burgeoned, so have its troubles. Acting on behalf of many an irate non-boater, community after community has passed laws aimed at cutting down the noise nuisance of the outboards. Today some 20 states have laws limiting speed and horsepower or requiring certain muffling standards. Five states limit outboards to 7 h.p. or less...
...natty boater...
Even a dashing romantic actor, when on the rheumatic side of fifty, generally gives reluctant way to younger blades. But Maurice Chevalier still remains the work horse of French romantic pictures. His gay straw boater is now a dignified fedora, and it perches at a less rakish angle, befitting his years; but he's still top man in the amatory circuit...
Chicago's old Boss Ed Kelly was there, talking to Jersey City's debonair old Boss Frank Hague, who wore a straw boater and flourished a cane. With other Democratic National Committee members, they had gathered in Washington's Mayflower...
...epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said she: ''My heart bleeds for those unfortunate men, but . . .") Crying "The Lady...