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...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
Motoring down to Morgantown, Md., 55 miles below Washington on the Potomac, Mr. Roosevelt took Candidate Lewis along with him, permitted plump Republican Governor Nice...
...Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...
...British sentiment was not matched, however, when the British Army said a far more significant farewell. Like the horses of the 4th & 7th, three full generals, four lieutenant generals, six major generals were retired before their time, not because anyone feared to see them suffer in battle but because plump, red-tape cutting War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha wanted to promote young men with new ideas. The retirement age for the two highest ranks having been cut from 67 to 60, and of major generals from 62 to 57, the Army Gazette simply listed the retirements. The 13, including...
...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...