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This week 50 excited people trooped into the little German town of Friedrichshafen. Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, European News Manager Webb Miller of United Press, Lady Drummond-Hay, Newshawk Karl von Wiegand, Poloist Elbridge Gerry, many another notable had each plunked down $500 for the privilege of making the first trip on the first regular air-service across the North Atlantic. With free baggage weight limited to a meagre 40 lb., they waited eagerly to board the Hindenburg, Germany's newest and largest dirigible, scheduled for a threeday, non-stop voyage to Lakehurst...
...most famed silent picture was The Hunchback of Notre Dame. For the past year, Hollywood has heard rumors that Universal was for sale. Last week the rumors were confirmed. Uncle Carl Laemmle sold his controlling interest in the company - 80% of the common stock - to a group headed by Poloist-Banker J. Cheever Cowdin...
...Grape-Nuts, Log Cabin Syrup, Swans Down Cake Flour. Minute Tapioca, Calumet Baking Powder, Baker's Chocolate. *Mrs. Hutton's daughter Eleanor was thrice married by the time she was 24. First husband was Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) with whom she eloped. No. 2 was French Poloist Etienne Marie Robert Gautier. No. 3 is George Curtis Rand, Manhattan agent for Bugatti automobiles...
...Joseph Ruddy is a huge, bald, splotchy man, the greatest water poloist in history, an Olympic swimmer, master of 26 sports, rescuer of some 150 lives, winner of a Congressional Medal for Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record...
...friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down to the tail. In the Stork Club, where celebrities and whatnots were three deep along the bar, Author Ernest Hemingway argued with Poloist Winston Guest...