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...years an author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...Raylaine." From Asheville, N. C. last week came reports of a new material, a new company. The material is raylaine, a synthetic fibre made from rayon waste and other materials, more woolish than silkish. The company is Raylaine, Inc., headed by G. Jean Nord, longtime con- sulting engineer to textile mills...
President Leguia: 'T am disposed to bow to any decision of armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...
...Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...