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...contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...
...Hamilton Hall the janitor displayed "A four weeks' killing." Among some forty ginger ale bottles were only six Scotch flasks and two square gin containers. Everything cleaned up in the mens' rooms comes down to us," added the exhibitor. "At a half a cent a bottle we don't make a a great deal...
...years ago Exhibitor Florence B Ilch got a telegram that said: "Your son died this morning." Mrs. Ilch fainted beside her collies at the Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity...
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. ("Don't wonder at the tremendous grosses the Paramount Exhibitor is piling up. He's not pulling 1929 pictures out of the icebox and hoping they'll eat 'em up; he's giving them 1930 Paramount hits right off the fire and they're flocking to the feast" [advertisement in Jan. 8 Variety] ) : $15,500,000 (estimated) as against...
Safety. Inherent stability is what every exhibitor claimed for his plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which...