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...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...
...says he would like to see the colleges instituting practical courses of instruction in film lore that would train the young man for later executive positions in Hollywood...
...kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies he visited nearby Indian reservations. Soon he had become more interested in the red man's lore than in the white man's law, presently had the New Confederacy giving 30% of its income for Indian welfare...
...this degree. They are taught by Dr. Thomas H. Gonzales, chief medical examiner of New York City, and his staff, and by Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Newark, N. J. This week Dr. Martland is scheduled to deliver a popular lecture in Manhattan on the peculiar lore of his field. Remembering that the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before he began writing detective fiction, Dr. Martland entitled his talk, "Dr. Watson and Mr. Sherlock Holmes...
...written text, the predicted 1000 were subscribed for. This week the prediction was expanded to exploding point when 50,000 copies of the first "public" edition* were released. The new book consists of the plates from the two earlier editions and explanatory notes by William Vogt, editor of Bird Lore, the official publication of the National Association of Audubon Societies...