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...BURTON, ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURER ?Fairfax Downey?Scribner...
...have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming all the way with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition had to take along so much impedimenta (such as grand pianos) because of testimonials to manufacturers that no room was left for navigating instruments. So when their airplane landed at the Pole they found...
...America: William James Mayo, Howard Atwood Kelly, John Miller Turpin Finney, George Washington Crile, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Dean DeWitt Lewis, Maude Slye, Aldred Scott Warthin, George Edward Pfahler, Evarts Ambrose Graham, Dallas Burton Phemister...
...Only veteran and distinguished Senators may have Senate chamber funerals. Some others thus honored: Ohio's Hanna, Georgia's Bacon, Ohio's Burton, Wyoming's Warren, Kentucky's Beck. -0ne John Grable, 21, confessed last week to robbing the home of their father, Herbert Hoover Jr. at Pasadena, Calif...
...Banks & Co., important Southern banking group, is headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...