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...intelligent publicist, he had arranged for a radio broadcast of his descent. A telephone line ran between the bathysphere and the tug Freedom. So the world heard a description which, while less Shelleyesque than Professor Piccard's stratospheric exuberances (TIME, Aug. 29), ran in the same strain of ecstasy...
...Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road...
...amusing," sneered Pertinax, pungent Paris publicist, "that America, thinking of its naval aircraft carriers, took care not to insert bombing planes in the list of offensive arms to abolish...
...Whitney may well have been surprised, upon reaching Washington last week, to learn the origin of his hurry call. Senator Walcott of Connecticut had, it seemed, received a telegram from no less a personage than Publicist George Barr Baker, faithful friend and volunteer adviser of President Hoover, disclosing the imminence of a "billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz...
...others. Annual prizes of $1,000 in these countries are awarded to authors and journalists who made the most meritorious contribution to the cause of friendship with the U. S. during the year. M. MACMILLAX General Secretary Strassburger Foundation New York City Founded by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, active publicist, socialite, sportsman and Republican of Norristown, Pa., Strassburger Awards have been given since 1929. German Consul Reinhardt lamented last fortnight...