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Circuit Judge William Richardson Hunter, 79, of Kankakee, Ill. has been a -member of the Bar for 55 years, a judge for only three. During the three he has built up a State-wide reputation for unusual decisions. Last year, for example, he recommended the re-establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters and gun-toters. Last week he made a stir with one more resounding decision: that a person on roller skates is a "vehicle." Up before peppery Judge Hunter came the case of 12-year-old James Maas, crippled by the car of one J. O. Workman...
Since 1934, Cunard White Star has disposed of nine major vessels-Mduretania, Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Doric, Oceanic, Calgaric, Adriatic, Albertic. It has built the Queen Mary and started slightly larger Hull 552. Still left is a gap in its fleet which Cunard last week announced will be filled with eight 30,000-to-40,000-ton motorships of an improved Georgic type, each to be given names ending in the traditional Cunard ia. The White Star ic suffix is being abandoned...
When Editor Brisbane began to make big money with the Hearstpapers, he started the large-scale real estate deals which made him unique among working newspapermen. In these operations Mr. Hearst was also soon involved. In 1926, Mr. Brisbane built the Ritz Tower apartment hotel, then the tallest (540 ft.) residential building in Manhattan, later selling it to his chief. Together they built the elaborate Ziegfeld Theatre, the Warwick Hotel across the street, took over other hotels, apartment buildings, beach properties. Mused William Randolph Hearst: "Arthur comes to me all the time with some wonderful plan to make money...
Eccentric to a mild degree when he got older, Brisbane displayed no fear of Death, took sensible health precautions. On his New Jersey estate he built a brick tower which he called "a machine for living." Each of its five floors had one large room. On the roof was a sleeping arrangement, for Brisbane argued that if outdoor sleeping was helpful to consumptives, it must also be good for people in normal health. When the morning sun waked him, he merely adjusted a lightproof mask of black silk, slept peacefully...
...Huntington, W. Va., Bricklayer A. D. ("Joker") White set out to beat the record of Cleveland's Dr. Thomas H. B. Staggers who had balanced 4,200 matches on the mouth of a beer bottle. "Joker" White successfully stacked up a record 5,400, announced modestly: "I just built 'em up like I'd put up a brick wall...