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Giuliano, Due de Nemours was a peace-loving Medici with pensive eyes and a stubby beard, not to be compared, however, with his potent father, Lorenzo the Magnificent. But Giuliano had his picture painted by Raphael once. That picture, once the property of Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, was bought by Manhattan Stockbroker Jules Semon Bache...
Laws in every State provide some measure of secrecy for grand jury activities, but newspapers habitually get around the law with the weasel-phrase "it was reported that. ..." Fortnight ago in Akron able, ambitious Common Pleas Judge Walter B. Wanamaker, 43, decided to prove Ohio's hazy law in the matter, forbade newspaper accounts of grand jury proceedings. Barked he: "There has been too much trying of lawsuits in newspapers instead of courts, particularly in criminal cases." Immediately the Scripps-Howard Times-Press published names of jurors and witnesses, listed titles of cases to be heard by a newly...
...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...
...Grand Hose Knight, a job at least analogous to president, is Frank H. Ellis, a Pittsburgh filling station operator and treasurer of NAPR. Grand Knight Ellis, who at ten lost his right leg hopping a freight train, also owns a paint and feed business in Pittsburgh's South Side steel district, once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Sipping a bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business...
...monster NAPR annual conventions. "Oil Conventions are pretty rough as a rule but our boys are different." said Chief Pump Knight Shanks last week. "The boys have to relax sometimes." Plans for fun at the convention in Rochester, N. Y. next autumn will be shaped by the Grand Knights of the Hose's governing body, the Free Privy Council...