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Wildly exciting to Japanese is each fresh leap by their industry in its hop-skip-&-skid race to overtake the West. Last week a full page advertisement in the latest copy of Japan Trade shrieked: DOUBLE STAR Long-Waited-For Thing Par Excellence ADVENT OF PATENT-LEATHER SHOES!!! The unsurpassed shoes newly born! ASAHI RUBBER WORKS...
...Skelly, 43, comedian; when his automobile was struck by a train; near West Cornwall, Conn. At times in a difficult career he was altar boy, prizefight manager, first baseman for the Boston "Braves," circus acrobat, medicine man hawker, trouper in Japan, China. His greatest stage success was the hoofer, "Skid," in Burlesque which he also played in a cinema version called The Dance of Life. Other plays: No, No, Nanette, Fiddlers Three, The Night Boat, Fifty Million Frenchmen (in England). His last was Come What May (TIME...
...hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started a fad of imitating a peacock's screech, slept all day, screeched like peacocks all night. Tourist prices began to skid upward. Travel publicity brought new thousands of law-abiding U. S. tourists, many of whom stayed to open their own shops, restaurants, travel bureaus and pensions...
Lawyer Feblowicz assembled his friends, summoned chemists, engineers, traffic policemen, asphalt manufacturers, chauffeurs, sued the municipality of Berlin for 80 marks ($19). Object of the case was to force the city to lay anti-skid paving in its streets. Since the suit was for less than 100 marks, no appeal is possible...
...months the financially strapped city fathers fought the case in & out of court. Last week the decision and 80 marks in cash went to Lawyer Feblowicz, the court holding that since anti-skid paving exists, the city is responsible for skidding accidents where reckless driving cannot be proven...