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...passengers in 1935. An increase of almost 50% over 1934, it was the first time busses had handled more traffic than their biggest rivals. To keep pace with this new business, the largest U. S. bus line, Greyhound Corp., last week whelped the first 25 of a litter of 305 new busses, completely outmoding present standard equipment...
...litter of empty Coca Cola bottles strewn around Landon headquarters. . . . Widow [Benjamin] Harrison entering a broadcasting booth, chatting carelessly, being told she was on the air and exclaiming, "Oh, that's very mean of you! ..." Knox supporters looking gloomily about their camp in Hotel Cleveland's ballroom after Landon's nomination and saying "Well, this is the 8-ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation...
...Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone in a clearing and eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi...
...Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck out a brawny arm holding a letter franked by Mrs. Coolidge, yelled for bids. It went for $3. Followed a litter of glassware, vases, pitchers, jars, hot plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give me $50?" boomed Bean. "Five dollars," said a voice. It went for $33. Wiping his brow, Auctioneer Bean grumbled...
Stages, scaffolding, a litter of broken plaster and a husky ex-cowboy occupied the small, tall Gallery of Contemporary American Art in the Detroit Arts Institute last week. Occasionally letting out a hearty "goddam" when something went wrong, the ex-cowboy was delicately daubing soft hues on the wet plaster walls, shaping dreamy, feminine figures...