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Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, like many another tycoon, finds it pleasant to bask his frail body in the warm Florida sunshine. But Florida no longer represents just rest to Mr. Doherty. For 15 months he has owned the big Miami Biltmore...
Louis Howe is a slight, frail man, with a wrinkled face, who wears rumpled clothes and an old-fashioned stand-up collar. He is not as crusty as he looks. No "yes" man, he gives Governor Roosevelt plenty of unwelcome advice. He has a wife and two children in Fall River whom he visits weekends. After March 4 he probably can be found in a cubby-hole office at the White House, quiet and self-effacing but exerting a sound wholesome influence over the Presidency far beyond the country's realization...
...Tilings That Are Caesar's, by Paul Vincent Carroll (new). An overbearing mother and a sensitive, frail father fight to the death over the choice of a husband for their psychopathic daughter...
...several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side, he harmonized in Bowery saloons for handouts, sang in Brooklyn beer halls, church and lodge benefits, finally in vaudeville and the Silver Slipper nightclub with his partners Eddie Jackson...
Gentle, spindly Auguste Piccard has twice explored his beloved stratosphere ten miles above Earth-highest man has ever gone. Last week a man who wears a metal band to support his head because his neck was broken flying in the War nearly intruded upon frail Professor Piccard's rarefied kingdom. In a specially lightened Bull Pup plane powered with a 550-h. p. Pegasus motor. Chief Test Pilot Cyril Unwins of Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force...