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...beauteous, red-haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...
...cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell with the result that Mother Earth may eventually take her place...
Next day the meticulous Times made this correction: "John V. W. Reynders did not borrow a nickel from Andrew W. Mellon yesterday. . . . Mr. Reynders did indeed ask Mr. Mellon for a loan of 5¢ but his employer ... did not have the money...
...recess of the Mellon case being heard before the Board of Tax Appeals, John V. W. Reynders of New York, one of Mr. Mellon's chief advisers, overtook Andrew W. Mellon in a corridor outside the courtroom and was heard to whisper what sounded like, 'Lend me a nickel, Andy.' Anyway he got the nickel and disappeared into a telephone booth...