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...wrecked amphibian was a Sikorsky S-43, weighed 19,000 lb., had a passenger capacity of 15. A fleet of Navy craft searching the accident area last week found packages of mail, life preservers, cushions, a rug, a container of ice cream. The mail was dried out in a Cristobal bakeshop, forwarded by plane. Small fragments of the Sikorsky scattered over a wide area led P.A.G. officials to believe that it struck the sea at high speed. No bodies were recovered. The passenger list made public last week disclosed that among the victims were two well-known Bureau...
...Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers by the aristocrats of haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style at moderate prices...
Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
...Ambassador to Russia Joseph Edward Davies slipped on a rug in his Washington apartment, wrenched his back, had Secretary of State Cordell Hull receive for him an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Presbyterian College (Clinton...
...Luli Deste. Thunder in the City gives her opportunity to demonstrate that these qualities photograph extremely well. She is currently established in Hollywood with three Afghan hounds. Divorced wife of the late Baron Godfried Hohenberg, Luli Deste once understudied Elizabeth Bergner in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, ran a rug-weaving concern in London before she started in European cinema a year ago. Given to exotic mannerisms, she dotes on cooking such dishes as saddle of stag, pigeon stuffed with quail...