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...horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls of big, soft gold pieces stamped with his hard, sharp profile...
...Five sleek, silver-coated Lockheed Orions were already in their hangars at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and United Airport, Burbank, Calif, last week, two more on their way from the factory. They are specially built, low-wing monoplanes, windowless, with retractable landing gear, designed to fly 170 m. p. h. with half-ton loads. The schedule westbound calls for take-off at 6 p. m., arrival at 8:45 a. m. Eastbound, take-off 12:45 p.m., arrive...
...arena was crowded as Judge Biggar watched beef on the hoof waddle by. Among the 750 was many a Hereford, returned to prominence. Finally the Biggar cane, at last removed from the Biggar arm pointed to a sleek fat Hereford from Texas, named Texas Special. Owner William Largent of Merkel, Tex., let out a whoop...
...Communists (third largest). In his quiet study he called a fateful conference of four men whom he trusts: his son and aide Major Oskar von Hindenburg, his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. his Acting Chancellor von Papen and Defense Minister-Kurt von Schleicher, the intriguing Machiavelli whose sleek, strong hand has been steadily "taming Hitler" for the past year...
...continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past...