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Miss George is that hostess and she has plenty of high spirits, but the party is pretty much of a flop. Miss George plays a let-her-rip U. S. showgirl who had been an English officer's war bride. Invited for a visit by her grown daughter (whom she hasn't seen since infancy and who has been brought up a lady), she goes, intending to play the lady too. Daughter turns out to be a terrible prig, and since Mama can't even dress like a lady, let alone act like one, there...
Last year Excavator LeTourneau's depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau...
...that was left was picturesqueness and a sort of sunset charm, but that was enough to entrance the whimsical New Yorker. Probably the most uncritical foreign observer who ever appeared on the Peninsula, he took to the high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated parsimony. On one occasion when the French Ambassador held up one of her card games to look for a coin he had dropped, the Duchess solicitously...
...points of the medley relay but at the same time will try to keep his aces, Ned Parke and Al Vande Weghe out of the first event. His trio of Scammell, McClure, and Boozan versus Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Lonine Stowell should provide the spectators with a genuinely rip-roaring race. Bosworth ought to be slightly faster than Scammell, McClure speedier than Waldron, and Stowell should be given a small margin over Boozan--according to past performances--and on the result may hinge the outcome of the meet...
...blustery night last week Captain Brown called the Coast Guard again. He said he had heard fragments of a distress call from a steamer somewhere between Cross Rip Light and Nantucket. From Captain Brown, that was all the Coast Guard needed. Gay Head launched its surf boats. The destroyer Breckinridge steamed in from neutrality patrol, the cut ters General Greene, Algonquin, George W. Campbell plunged for the scene. Crews from Coskata and Maddaket stations joined Gay Head's in the search. Soon reporters from all over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown...