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Married. Frank Clifford Wykoff, 24, onetime University of Southern California sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.): and one Ethel Mae Richardson of Glendale, Calif.; in Glen- dale...
King Edward VII would have relished Mae West. Last week the salons of Paris couturiers were heavy with a nostalgia Edwardian or earlier. Sumptuously they ushered in winter modes inspired by the fun which a few ultrasmart Parisiennes have lately had dressing up like the opulent hoyden Miss West created on the stage as Diamond Lil, recreated on the screen as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (TIME...
Like so much featherbrained Paris fun which leads on to the fashion, the mode started with a Mae West Party given on the platform restaurant of the Eiffel Tower by Mrs. (not Mme.J Denys Trefusis. She is by birth one of those Keppels who keep up the tone of British aristocracy. Despite, or perhaps because of, their proud Dutch blood, the Keppels produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales...
...minutes the grimy pilot was held prisoner in Winnie Mae's cockpit by the railling, shouting mob. Post's Manager Lee Trenholm fought his way through, managed to hand Pilot Post a jug of ice water which he drained at a gulp, and a white handkerchief to cover his empty left-eye socket (he had lost his white patch in Alaska). Radio announcers all but jammed microphones down his throat. ''Where have you been since last Saturday?" Manager Trenholm asked obligingly for the benefit of radio's millions of listeners. "Damned if I know," Pilot...
...disgusted'' that he had broken his and Gatty's old 8½-day record by only 21 hr. (his record time for 15,596 mi.: 7 days 18 hr. 49 min.). His "slowness" he blamed on inept Berlin mechanics who, instead of fueling Winnie Mae in 20 min., had held him there more than three hours, so that he got caught in storms over East Prussia and had to turn back. He raged: "I'm still burning up about that, and I won't soon forget...