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Married. Melville Elijah Stone II, of Chicago (Lee, Higginson & Co.), namesake grandson of the Associated Press' late general manager; and Katharine Temple Lapsley of Bedford, N. Y., granddaughter of the late Manhattan financier Howard Lapsley; in Bedford. Mr. Stone was once described and painted by Artist Thomas Casilear Cole as "the genuine, cleanminded young man of today in these United States" (TIME...
Anne Morrow, with her mother and sister Elizabeth, last week headed home towards Englewood, N. J., from Mexico. At Houston, Tex., she resisted newsmen with her fiance's phrase: "I have nothing to say." Said Sister Elizabeth: "One of the things which helped Col. Lindbergh to his fame was his silence on personal affairs...
...Open Letter neither the tobacco nor the radio company has replied. The Lucky v. Sweet campaign has not recently been appearing in U. S. newspapers. The N F P P C attributes this absence to an awakened journalistic conscience; the advertising agency (Lord & Thomas and Logan) preparing Lucky advertising says that the campaign has finished its allotted run, will shortly be followed by another. Whether this new campaign will continue the Luckies v. Sweets campaign has not been announced, though President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (originator of the anti-sweet idea) has never exhibited the slightest signs...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
...youngest of big-university presidents was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mother who was graduated at Mt. Holyoke and a father who is now President of Berea College (Kentucky). Education has be come a Hutchins family tradition. The Youngest President's brother, Francis, 26, is head of Yale-in-China; another brother, William, teaches at the Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn...