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Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...
Flying Squirrels Sirs: ''He [Earl Carroll] was the first man to land an airplane in Manhattan's Central Park" (TIME, Sept. 7). Early in the spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the sheep meadow at 66th Street. Was arrested for something-possibly, publicity for the cop who arrested me- and discharged by Magistrate MacQuade next morning. The Aero Club of America suspended my license for six months. If I remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field...
...clubs are crowded at the same, time of day that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs, Larry Fay found it easy to switch to the milk business without any great change in work ing hours. His mistake was in attempting to trans fer night club business methods (i.e. polite but firm extortion) to the new enterprise. Even big, established milk companies feared his power. The result was that, when Larry Fay last week received his 57th summons in 14 years, whereas his previous offenses had been minor, this time the charge against...
...involuntary interruption of regular breathing, its victims seem comic to beholders and auditors. Sometimes the victim gets fun out of the experience, as in the story told about Actress Beatrice Lillie, last year at the gambling casino of Juan-les-Pins. When she sat down at a chemin de fer table, she began to hiccough, loudly. Before she could stop the croupier impassively shoved 150,000 francs to her. He thought that she had been barking "Banco...
...Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South...