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Death on the Nile-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). The murder of an English heiress in Egypt, followed by two more baffling killings, solved by Agatha Christie's famed Hercule Poirot in a story that is readable, implausible, but contains the most genuinely surprising solution of the month...
...Moscow on the night of December 9 in the Intourist Hotel National, was not permitted to see U. S. diplomatic representatives in Moscow, as demanded .by Secretary Hull. Repeatedly in the past J. Stalin & Co. have shown unusual favors to aggressively capitalist Lawyer Davies and his General Foods heiress wife (TIME, March 15). Not long after the Davies-Troyanovsky conversation in Washington, the US. colony in Moscow learned that U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson was at last going to be permitted to see U. S. Citizen Rubens...
...second time within a month, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, inventor's heiress who two years ago sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation, was separated from her garageman husband, Ronald Gay. Gay went home to his mother; his wife sent packing after him-her engagement ring, but not her wedding ring, for which she said she herself had paid. Both talked of impending divorce. Said he: "I have been a husband and at the same time a stranger in her home. If we ever go back together-and I sincerely hope we can work this thing...
...best harness horses in the world are bred in the U. S. Greatest standard-bred nursery in the world is Walnut Hall Farm, near Lexington, Ky., owned by Dr. & Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards Jr. (nee Lela Harkness, Standard Oil heiress). For the past 23 years, Walnut Hall has averaged 100 foals a year, has bred more trotting champions than any other U. S. stud. This year Walnut Hall sold 95 yearlings at the Old I Glory Sale, more than any other nursery, grossing $113,985, an average of approximately $1,200 per horse. Walnut Hall also received the highest...
...defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York...