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Sir Percival Perry, general European executive for Henry Ford, squirmed visibly one day last week in London as his employer gave audience to English journalists.
"Rolls-Royce of Italy" is the Isotta-Fraschini while Fiat goes in for "Fordized" mass production. But it was announced last week that Mr. Ford has contracted with Isotta to make Ford cars in Italy, at Firso to some extent, from parts shipped from Detroit, later from 100% Italian parts...
Dr. Ernest William Brown, Yale mathematics professor, joined the growing ranks of Planet X doubters. He said he had checked the calculations of the late Astronomer Percival Lowell, the planet's predicter, had discovered inaccuracies.
Last week the Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, gossip monthly, reappeared on newsstands for the first time in two months. It had been sold by its founder-owner, Percival L. Harden, to Windsor Publishing Corp., owners of The Tatler & American Sketch, another gossip monthly, after two years, during which Mr. Harden...
As first copies of the revived magazine were being perused by readers, last week, Percival Harden, 54, sat down on a chair in a Manhattan hotel, put a pistol against his breast, killed himself. His lawyer & friends gave as the reason his grief at having to relinquish "his old interests...