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...Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan...
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...
Each answer was read two or three times by the judges' "staff," then the best ones (about 500) were bound, sent to Editor Ray Long (Cosmopolitan), Chain-Publisher Roy Wilson Howard and Artist Charles Dana Gibson (Life) for final judgment. Only last week were the winners decided...
Other good details?Wynne Gibson shooting "The Big Feller," gang boss, in the back, throwing in the pistol and locking the door of the room in which The Big Feller is alone with Miss Sidney; the derby hat of a murdered beer-runner, with his gilt initials prominent in the crown, floating down a city river; the closing episode in which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition...
...evolved Elmer Gantry (TIME, March 14, 1927), Rev. Jesse E. Baker recently surprised his respectable Avondale Methodist Church congregation with a sermon defending a local widow who had been the subject of much moral gossip. Last week he surprised them further by marrying the widow, a Mrs. Stella Gibson...