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...seduces her husband away from herself. Good shot: Franchot Tone promising Tullio Carminati to plead his case with Constance Bennett, then uneasily making love on his own behalf while Carminati plays rapturously on the piano. Good tunes: ''Coffee in the Morning, Kisses in the Night,'' "Boulevard of Broken Dreams...
Late one afternoon last month in Jacksonville, Fla. Gordon Morange Stanton was driving his automobile along Ortega Boulevard three blocks from the home of his wife's wealthy parents. His only companion was his pet bulldog. On a curve the car overturned. The dog was killed instantly. Stanton died that night...
Chicago ordinarily has one or two cases of amebic dysentery a month. Last August the number jumped to 15. The first two cases were traced to the big, popular Congress Hotel on South Michigan Boulevard. Examination of 364 of its food handlers revealed 15 active cases, 11 carriers. One of them was the Assyrian cook thought to have been the source of Chicago's last outbreak of the disease, in 1927. Infected employes were also discovered at the nearby Auditorium Hotel, and two restaurants...
...were convicted after a trial which brought out amazing tales of corrupt extravagance. After 1927 the Sanitary District's expenditures had jumped from 38 to 55 million per year. Its payroll was padded double with nonworkers. It spent $1,000,000 on a useless bridle path along McCormick Boulevard ("From Nowhere to Nowhere") which should have cost less than $300,000. It set up dummy concerns to buy and sell building materials at outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration...
...Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University of Chicago campus, at No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very...