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Sentenced. Film Actor Duncan Renaldo, 28 (Trader Horn, Bridge of San Luis Rey) ; to two years in Federal Penitentiary and $2,000 fine for falsifying his passport, swearing to it; in Los Angeles. Renaldo claimed Camden (N. J.) birth, the U. S. showed "overwhelming" evidence of Rumanian birth, planned deportation proceedings...
...when his duties as iirector of the Curtis Institute of Music give lim time, he likes nothing better than to work in the laboratory of his Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...
...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
From the sweeping span across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, on the south, to the Frenchtown, N. J. bridge on the north, grey-clad Pennsylvania State troopers were drawn up against a line of blue-clad New Jersey troopers last week. On Oct. 15 a Pennsylvania law had gone into effect requiring Pennsylvania licenses on all commercial buses and trucks owned outside and operating inside the State. New Jersey retaliated by closing its borders to all Pennsylvania trucks and buses, whether operated for hire or privately used. While Governor Gifford Pinchot was maintaining in Harrisburg that "Pennsylvania...
...usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...