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...high indignation, relatives of the kidnaped élite of Megntzu wired qualm-wracked Governor Hu, blamed him, demanded that he pay the ransom...
...Manhattan last week there opened an exhibition of the paintings of Hélène Perdriat. Because Editor Donald Freeman had already discovered her to the readers of Vanity Fair, the show was patronized by an élite and knowing clientele. The event was significant, however, not because Alicia DuPont, Mrs. Amy Whitney, Mrs. T. W. Duke, Mrs. William Brush, Mrs. James Bartholomew and their like graced the occasion, but because it introduced to the U. S. the bizarre and beautiful artistry of a young and almost legendary French painter...
...Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo's Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Co. Also included was C.O. Miniger, head of Toledo's Electric Auto-Lite Co. Both Mr. Miniger and Banker Jones have long been Willys-Overland directors. The sale was accompanied by rumors of merger with Nash and Packard, though Packard has a long anti-merger tradition...
Other companies represented are Bendix Corp., Electric Auto-Lite, Wright and Curtiss. The new aviation accessory corporation will be capitalized at $140,000,000 President of Bendix Aviation Corp. is Vincent Bendix, inventor of the Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion...
Electric Auto-Lite...