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...Long Island Sound, off Mayville, L. I., Henry Pester was fishing. A sea gull frisked greedily about his catch. He kept chasing it away. The gull darted at the water, caught a 1-lb. weakfish, dropped it squarely in Mr. Fester's lap, flew away...
...Link-Belt Co. concluded last week for the National Association of Manufacturers, naturally hoped to put a rosy lacquer on the open shop principle of employing labor, that is, of making no discrimination against union or non-union labor, just so that the union organizations do not pester the employers...
Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them...
...leitmotif of this year's set of 28 was, in effect, "Don't pester business. Protect it where necessary...
...best to convey to him that he had as much right to pester me about these things as to ask where I bought my trousers or whether I had an overdraft at the bank. After a time I succeeded in stunning or killing these tentatives to vulgarity and then he proceeded to discuss the view...