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Farley-Riley, The two characters who were chiefly responsible for earmarking the U. S. winter of 1936 with this insane melody were named Eddy Farley, fleshy master-of-ceremonies, and Mike Riley, emaciated trombone player, at a small dive called the Onyx Club in Manhattan's iniquitous West 52nd Street. Last week they claimed to be $1,000 richer than they were a month ago when the song was first published, with royalties just beginning to come in. They expected to make a trip to Hollywood to do a series of cinema shorts. Meanwhile their names were last week...
...horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow in here and it comes out there...
...Nearly four feet high, the Trophy consists of a globe of the world perched on a winged Victory sprouting from a plinth of mottled yellow onyx. Festooned around the middle is a brightly enameled Blue Ribbon. Attached elsewhere are models of old galleons, pictures of modern liners, statues of Neptune & Amphitrite. Atop the whole confection is a winged figure called Speed lunging forward with a liner held high in his right hand, while his left straight-arms a crumpling figure called Force of the Atlantic...
...crystal globe the size of a golf ball in a small gold pagoda in a large black onyx pagoda on a table in the second-floor study in a house in San Francisco last week rested a tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June...
...Hales Trophy is three and a half feet of solid silver, onyx and gilt, showing Victory, Neptune and Amphitrite upholding a globe and topped by a figure called Speed urging a liner into the face of a figure called The Force of the Atlantic. Roundabout were memorials to past record-holders and at the base was Harold Hales's name...