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This last pile consisted of $520,510 in cash, $1,233,748 in miscellaneous notes, $2,000,000 in real estate, $8.264,004 in Government bonds, $24,489.398 in stocks. Mr. Mellon's holdings showed he had a taste for "blue chips." Among his assets...
Lambeth Palace, in the southeast part of London, is one of the official residences of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not from this pile but from the narrow, grubby street nearby came the name of England's present dance fad, the greatest in years-the Lambeth Walk. A number in a successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock...
...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
When Barbara was twelve years old, she inherited nearly $20,000,000 of the fortune which her rugged grandfather had amassed from his 5-&-10? stores. Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California...