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...McCormick for $80,000. Last week it was subdivided in 146 separate lots and sold, after a block bid of $20,000 by Mrs. Hubbard had been refused, to dozens of different owners for a total of $57,565. Unnoticed by most in the room was a plump little man who kept nervously wiping his forehead and gazing first at Auctioneer Otto Bernet, then at Mrs. Hubbard as she bid $100 at a crack with the raise of a pencil. It was Escort Edwin Krenn. "All this is breaking my heart," declared this beneficiary under the McCormick will, with...
...Hearted Herbert (by Sophie Kerr and Anna Steese Richardson; Eddie Dowling, producer). "I never saw a college man who was worth his salt," says Herbert Kalness (J. C. Nugent), a plump, mean, small-town manufacturer who also has a low opinion of evening clothes, servants and most of the amenities. When the play opens, he seems much less devoted to his charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first...
...When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...
...with her. Marion travels without the family now. She bought them a house in Kansas City last summer, left them there. She returned to New York, bought herself a La Salle limousine, Bergdorf-Goodman clothes, bobbed her hair, took to roller-skating in Central Park. She used to be plump, phlegmatic, frownish about makeup, proud of being oldfashioned. At 27 she is 15 pounds thinner than at 19. Her looks, too, have improved...
Nobody loves a mercenary who loses. That lesson was brought home to plump General Hans Kundt of Germany and Bolivia last week. Fresh from Prussian drill fields, he whipped the dazed Indian conscripts of Bolivia into the semblance of a modern fighting machine, commanded them in the Chaco War against Paraguay...