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Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of famed Florenz Ziegfeld, profited last week by one of her father's excursions into the limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...
...Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left the job of paying the prize-money. "Each and every one of you will get your cash, boys-Cold Cash -that's my name. . . . Come to me next week . . ." cried...
Scholastic glory will have more than words of praise with which to reward its seekers if the suggestion made by a professor of Oberlin College is adopted. His proposal is that a sports model roadster be given along with the traditional key to those receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors, thus making it a prize ate. More incentive to study is needed, worth the efforts of every undergradu-according to the professor, and the best way to supply it is to offer as reward-things that the student really wants...
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