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...Jamestown, N. Y., James C. Norton urged a beetle 617 times round the brim of a derby hat. Said he: "I guess I got the record...
Shortly after noon, William Fox, coat collar turned up, snap-brim hat bent down over his face, arrived to give his verdict, to choose between the new trusteeship or receivership. So momentous did he consider the occasion he let his photo be taken, for the first time in 15 years. Looking straight ahead, he hurried into the building, entered Judge Coleman's private office. The attorneys waited outside, hoping that this day would see an end to one of the greatest tangles of recent financial history. An hour and a half later the Fox answer came. Judge Coleman, alone...
...Mann found him quietly working at his latest novel, Joseph and His Brothers, a first venture into Biblical fiction. He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been profoundly stirred by Scandinavian literature...
...Quincy, Mass., there was a sultry, grey sky, a wet mist falling. An elegant lady in white shoes and stockings, in a white flannel coat .and a white felt hat with a white straw brim, with white teeth shining in a broad smile, advanced through the crowd. One white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...