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...important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet Man, Play Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness of her brown mop she attributes to her habit of shampooing it with cleaning fluid...
Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
...rated an expert. In late years Southern Pacific has lost much of its east & west traffic to Missouri Pacific where the lines compete, notably from El Paso to New Orleans. S. P. now controls St. Louis Southwestern ("The Cotton Belt") and can compete with the Van Sweringens' MOP directly into St. Louis. It will be Vice Chairman Shoup's job to follow the course of S. P.'s eastbound shipments. trying to persuade shippers against diverting them to competing lines, and to originate business in the East. He formerly received $90,000 a year. His new salary...
Other railroad presidents' salaries last March included: General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania, $135,000; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
...direct the Japanese forces their Commander-in-Chief, doughty little General Shigeru Honjo who seized Manchuria in the first place (TIME, Sept. 28), hurried to Harbin. From this base three Japanese forces were advancing, nominally "to mop up the Chinese bandits." but all toward different points on the Soviet frontier...