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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-oldster high in the Baron's esteem-Alfred Wolff, university graduate, engineer, early an ace. When the Baron was plunged to his death, many of his duties devolved upon Ace Wolff. Against French and English aces Wolff fought fierce battles. It happened that he had never to fight a U. S. flyer...
...attention to the difference such signs make in a city's trade, night-life and general atmosphere. On Oct. 21, all the Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park...
...Frank D. Comerford, a vice president of I. P. & P., told the Commission: "I thought it unwise for our company to invest in newspapers. ... I told Graustein [Archibald Robertson Graustein, I. P. & P. president] so in private . . . but never said so in a Board of Directors meeting." In Manhattan and Richmond, Va., two more side-lights developed last week to heighten the power-paper investigation spectacle...
...Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, went last week to squelch a conference of policy game promoters, scuffled with a large Negro, wrested a revolver from his hand...
...Chicago, one Henry Redfeldt wooed for six years a Wisconsin maiden he had never seen, sent her $6,000. Last week he sued his landlady, said she had devised the courtship, invented the maiden, stolen the funds, written the answers to his letters...