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...Flat-faced, awkward King Levinsky Chicago heavyweight pugilist and onetime fishmonger, encouraged by the shrieks and squeals of his sister and manager Mrs. Lena Levy: a ten-round bout against slick-haired, skilful Tommy Loughran, who was three times knocked clown by Levinsky's right hand; in Manhattan...
...last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities of a pair of moppets and a Cairn bitch named Sally, all of whom posed for Photographer Lena Towsley. Before publication, a number of women scanned the volume, discovered a photograph which they disapproved. It showed Peggy & Peter (see cut) saying their prayers. The ladies objected. Puzzled but agreeable, Publishers Farrar & Rinehart deleted the photograph from the published volume...
...issue show a lighter touch, if less care. Structurally, they are not stories at all, but rather anecdotes, character studies, Mr. Donaldson's "A Form of Shyness" is particularly well-done. He finds himself at home with his characters, and they live--almost too well. Mr. Sulzberger's "Lena" is not on the same level. It is to be regretted that there is not more in the number in the way of book reviews and musical and dramatic criticism, but all in all, the Advocate opens its sixty-third--or is it its sixty-fourth -- consecutive year in sound...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...
...Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week was Capt. Fausto Cecconi, 26, former co-holder with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut. Giuseppe Da-monte, they were going to Rome to try and regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them...