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...Mint Canyon, Calif, one day last week, Mrs. Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
...same day this week Henry Ford, 74, and Clara Bryant Ford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and Mrs. Ford's 71st birthday by dining informally at Son Edsel's with old friends & neighbors. Next day Dearborn luncheon clubs presented Motorman Ford with a book containing 4,000 admiring letters. The clubs also announced they had drawn up a 500,000-signature, mile-and-a-half-long petition to Franklin Roosevelt, asking him to call off Labor's attacks on Ford. The petition will be carted to Washington in a trailer...
Unique is the opportunity offered Harvard undergraduates and others to spend their Easter vacation at a $5 "Open House" program in New York City. Such was the gist of a circular received from one Clara Thornhill Hammond, styled "Director of the House-party...
...excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while we seek a mate among nations to honor as a friend, we also seek a mate among women to worship as an idol. We do not approach her feeling the biological urge as we once did in the days of Clara Bow, for now beauty to us is metaphysical and intellectual. In our wisdom we know we can never find her in human form, though we need her badly. But at last we have found her, and she is the essence of perfect virtue. Her name is Snow White...