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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a record for the fastest 30-mi. heat in that class (61.5 m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions on his throttle: tight closed and wide open...
...also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar to that of Flesh. However, when Edmund Goulcling (who directed Grand Hotel) wrote Flesh, and when John Ford directed it. they would have done well to remember more of Variety than the outline of the story. Flesh moves in a lugubrious way, too slowly to be exciting, and perspiring with pathos...
...been affiliated with the Guggenheim Brothers and John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava. A buckaroo in business, his chief hobby is the collection of old illuminated manuscripts...
Among the names borne by millions of European males, including the Kings of Italy, Belgium and Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male-and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many...
...Oxford University Press ($3.50). THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE-Hon-ore de Balzac-Liveright ($2). PLAYS & POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS & CRESSIDA-Geoffrey Chaucer -Random House ($3.50). See below. THE WESTERN PONY-William R. Leigh -Huntington Press...