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Suitable Suitor. For the plump hand of the House of Bacardi there have been many suitors in the past six months. At one time or another nearly every U. S. liquorman has pleaded for the exclusive right to market Cuba's rum after Repeal (TIME, Oct. 9). The better to hear the suits, aging Henri Schueg, son-in-law of the founding Facundo Bacardi and present head of the House, journeyed to Manhattan last month. Last week shrewd old Henri Schueg announced that he had at last found a suitable suitor-the importing subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Most...
...Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling boy and a short, plump-cheeked boy-Henry Wetter Jr., 15, son of a Memphis, Tenn. stove manufacturer, and Phelps Newberry Jr., 15, son of a Detroit banker, grandson of onetime Senator and Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry. Apprehensively the two lugged five suitcases, noiselessly as possible lest some sharp-eared master hear...
...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...
...Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...
Visiting in Washington was Alabama's portly ex-Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, whose fear and hate of Popery caused him to bolt the Democratic candidacy of Al Smith, plump for Hoover in 1928. To inquiries about his law business in Lafayette. Ala, he replied: "Business is good. I'm at peace with the world." "How about you and the Pope?" he was asked. Senator Heflin grinned broadly, "I'm at peace with the Pope...