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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every U. S. citizen under 40 who ever had a middle-class home or a children's library card knows the illustrations of Howard Pyle and N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. Together they were and are the chief artistic pride of Wilmington, Del., and their abundant families and pupils continue to paint like fury. Last week a young Wyeth and a young Pyle again took first and second honors in the 24th annual triple-exhibition of Delaware Artists, Pupils of Howard Pyle and Members of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, held on the second floor of Wilmington...
Greenville, Del. Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. does not consider its "Old Hickory'' product a table salt. Primarily for curing farm-killed pork, "Old Hickory'' has recently been discovered to possess a pleasing "hammy" flavor, especially good in soups; is sold only by a few swank grocers, such as Philadelphia's John Wagner & Sons, in 4-oz. bottles...
Champion Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
...most interesting photographs in the collection is that of the studio of Diego Rivera in San Angel, "a quiet suburb of Mexico City." Another work bound to attract attention is that of "Devotees at the Capilla del Pocito," which was taken at a spring in Guadalupe. Here, tradition holds that a spring with miraculous healing powers burst from beneath the feet of the Virgin of Guadalupe about...
...knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot in a picket line; Trick-Roper Gene McLaughlin, 7, of Del Rio, Tex. performing with his brother Donald...