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Chang's Butt Sirs: How come and for why publicity of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang with pistol butt exposed in shoulder holster under right arm? (TIME, Sept. 21.) I wonder how many people noticed and commented upon this, and where they live. In this domain of Ross Shaw Sterling where National Guardsmen and Texas Rangers make pistols noticeable, we hardly miss. . . . TOM T. MAIN Tyler...
...silly. . . ." To perform together privately every fortnight will meet Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. William Vincent Astor (pianists), Mrs. Leland Harrison (wife of the Tariff Commission's international relations division head), Mrs. Arthur Woods (wife of the resigned Director of President Hoover's Unemployment Relief) and Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt (singers). Asked if husbands approved, Mrs. Mitchell said: "One night I had a party for Count Apponyi of Hungary. And he was telling us a beautiful anecdote about how his grandfather had heard a string quartet play one of Beethoven's compositions the first time. Beethoven was an unknown...
Attacked, and immediately counterattacking, was the great $1,282,000,000 Cities Service Co.. led into battle by its wily, picturesque generalissimo Henry Latham Doherty. Some 150 companies form the Cities Service group. Butt of the attack last week was Cities Service Gas Co., formed in 1922 as Empire Natural Gas Co., rechristened in 1927. Chief business of this unit is the transportation of natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors...
...ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
...length of 275 ft. upon the forest floor. An old burn had apparently unbalanced it, while its roots were loosened by a tiny spring. The great tree's fall smashed it to smithereens, some pieces flying 500 yards. Still stood greatest "General Grant," 40 ft. through the butt...