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...naval functions in Bermuda, many a U. S. tycoon & wife opened their white-roofed cottage last week. Humbler citizens took hotel rooms. Bermudian landlords, shopkeepers, bartenders rubbed their hands appreciatively. But not many U. S. vacationers who have gone to warmer, quieter Nassau in previous winters changed their custom for Royalty's sake. Between Bermuda and Nassau exists a gentle rivalry shared loyally by those who cause...
Motor Traffic Deaths. If all U. S. communities followed the Ohio custom of erecting a white wooden cross at the site of every motor traffic death, the U. S. last week would have had 32,500 more such crosses than a year ago, a 4% increase over the 31,200 motor deaths of 1929, according to the National Safety Council...
...colors, whites and Negroes like blue best, green and orange, respectively, next best. Favorite color of Indians, Filipinos, Japanese and Mexicans is red; next blue, violet or green. Least popular in all groups is white. Conclusion: "Color preference in a race is positively influenced by racial tradition and custom...
Cincinnatians will take note that for the opening scene of her new book, Fannie Hurst has taken care, as is her custom, to have a letter-perfect local nomenclature- Alms & Doepke, Shillito's, Pogue's, Rook-wood Pottery, Eden Park, Avondale. Her story starts in the '90s, when "Over the Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke...
...prize will be awarded to the best solution of the following problem: "A Tomb for a Great Musician: it is supposed that a genial composer of world-wide reputation included in his will the desire to be buried in a spot where it had been his custom to go to meditate on his work. A group of his friends . . . proposes to erect on that very spot a beautiful memorial tomb . . . The character should be very refined, the scale not monumental, the architecture and sculpture simple and calm...