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Medium height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...
...event of another war. But last week the War Department regretfully announced that it had lost track of almost half of its aces, sought through the public prints the whereabouts of 28 of them. Among the "missing" were famed Jerry Vasconcelles, companion of the late Hero Frank ("Balloon Buster") Luke, and Jaques M. Swaab, credited with ten enemy planes...
Last week the State of Illinois, amply aided by Tribune investigators, concluded its case against one Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers, St. Louis gangster, accused of the Lingle murder. Reputed already to have cost $150,000 for investigations, it was one of the few famed gang murders ever to go so far as actual trial in Chicago. Defense and prosecution both produced human molecules from the stream that had been flowing through the tunnel last June 9, to try to reproduce pictures of what had happened...
...other hand The Gang Buster with Jack Oakie comes right out and calls itself a comedy. Oakie as a breezy, superstitious insurance agent feels it incumbent upon himself to rescue the daughter of a lawyer from the clutches of some gentlemen who out-Capone Capone. Gats, black-jacks, and, machine guns to the contrary the task is accomplished with the usual Oakiean touches. Those who like the young man in question, and rumor hath it that there be such, will enjoy the picture...
...Hollywood studio of Cinecomedian Buster Keaton, husband of Sister Natalie Talmadge, went onetime Cinemactress Kathleen Key. They squabbled over money matters. Soon Miss Key was dragged screaming from the room by two policemen. Keaton, with a bruised and abraded face, told flocking newshawks: "She completely wrecked my dressing-room! She clawed me and scratched and tore my clothes! She manhandled me something awful...