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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
Fortnight ago Capt. Rene Pugnet was appointed to succeed Capt. Yves Thomas as Captain of the French Liner Paris. Last week, as New-Capt. Pugnet was preparing to make his first westward voyage as her Captain, the Paris mysteriously caught fire at her berth at Havre. Rugs were spoiled, handsomely furnished first-class cabins charred, the grand staircase almost demolished. One thousand U. S. tourists were forced to search frantically for other passage. The accident was the Paris's third in the last 18 months...
...aviation industry's first stockjobbing scandal broke open last week. Whenever public imagination fixes on an industry, as on Oil a decade ago and Gold before that, crooks easily sell stock of little or no value to everready gulls...
That might have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...
...Almost nonchalantly it heaved its proud silver beauty to the first pale rays of the pastel dawn, sunning the gleaming breast with almost birdlike coquetry...