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Married. Lucy Estelle ("Dicky Dell") Doheny, 21, granddaughter & heiress of the late Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, and Waldemann Van Cott Niven, 25, Los Angeles attorney; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...rugged Sespe Valley in the wild back country of California's Ventura County one day last week motored a Los Angeles Times newshawk, a photographer and Sidney B. Peyton, Fillmore citrus grower and able amateur ornithologist. Up and up for a mile they climbed a great hogback of white cliffs, jagged peaks, huge caves and waterfalls. When the narrow road ended they left their car, tramped off into the brush. After a few miles, shouts went up as they saw what they had come to see-a monstrous black bird soaring far overhead, its white underwings flashing...
That afternoon the Los Angeles Times expedition sighted eleven condors, also some white-downed two-year-olds still diving down their parents' throats for food. Some of the oldsters, Expert Peyton thought, had lived a century or more. Joyfully he opined that the condor had turned back from its road to extinction...
Among the numerous followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine who have never laid eyes on the man they think is God, is a sizable group in California. These Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal...
President Roosevelt's son-in-law John Boettiger's Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer had reached the thirteenth volume in a 20-volume "World's Greatest Literature" set, for 39? each plus seven coupons. The Los Angeles Times was plugging a 20-volume set of Dickens.* Thirty other newspapers had sold 7,000,000 volumes of a "World's Greatest Literature" set for 39?the copy plus coupons...