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Hollywood and Broadway rubbed their palms gleefully over the outcome of a tax "test case" decided last week in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Manhattan. Appellant was plump, dark Actor Sidney Blackmer. From his taxable income in 1927, Actor Blackmer had deducted $1,687.10 as money spent entertaining critics and influential acquaintances who might further his professional career. The Board of Tax Appeals had previously turned thumbs down on the deduction, just as it had last year when Mr. Blackmer's divorced wife Lenore Ulric claimed exemption for $11,130 worth of "donated favors" to "newspaper critics...
...stag party he had brought along only Gus Gennerich, his bodyguard, three secret service men and his Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. At the station were his son James and Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "It's a great thing to have you aboard again...
Four men climbed into a big limousine one morning in Palo Alto. The plump man was Herbert Hoover. The others were two secretaries and a chauffeur. Heading eastward across the U. S. the limousine took Mr. Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman...
...miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst...
Aristocrats among Amerindians are the Creeks, one of the five oldtime "civilized tribes." An aristocrat among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer...