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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years at his country home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Funnyman Joe Cook has been assembling at great expense safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait...
...Model for the Field Museum's typical Nordic male was a professional from Brooklyn, N. Y. Commended on his perfect muscular development, he replied: "I've won all the cups they offer for the best body proportions . . . so I decided to make a book of the best photographs that have been taken of me. Now the book has such a sale I don't have to work any more. . . . The girls call me 'God's Gift to Women...
Nursing a shoulder fractured two months ago in a springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise...
...year was selected to limit membership to Wartime aviators, the day to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, N...
Died. Frank C. Munson, 60, president since 1926 of Munson Steamship Line; of injuries received when his automobile crashed; in Port Chester, N...