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...similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek. These pictures showed bathing beauties riding under water on pickerel, an old-time chorus girl on a high-wheel bicycle dropping from a blimp by parachute; a monkey-headed robin perched beside a nestful of dice...
...Snowden had helped the Chancellor to write down his blue sheets of bad news before their cheery hearth in Surrey (see cut). Last week, alert as a mother robin, she perched in the gallery, saw her Philip pop a private word in the Prime Minister's ear, pick up a glass of water,* tilt it against his thin lips, set it down, and begin to speak...
...under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
...post-War London, but he remembered better days. Before the War he had been land agent for a good friend in Devon. There he had known and liked quixotic, unbalanced John Osmund, and had fallen in love with Helen, Osmund's fiancee. Osmund and two cronies, attempting a Robin Hood burglary, had been arrested, jailed. Gunn was still in love with Helen but he had not seen her since. One cold night in Piccadilly, with only a half-crown between him and something desperate, he found them all again...
...lady skaters was graceful, smiling Maribel Y. Vinson of Winchester, Mass., who executed her figures so well that she was awarded the women's senior championship for the fourth year in succession. An able performer in the junior men's tournament was 10-year-old Robin Lee of Minneapolis. In the senior tournament Roger E. Turner of Milton, Mass. won for the fourth year in succession. Mrs. D. F. Secord and Ferrier Martin, of the New York Skating Club, won the waltzing championship but lost in the dance tournament to Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard and W. W. Niles...