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...Dust for a week when her second husband, Paul Bern Levy, assistant production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shot himself dead (TIME, Sept. 19). Soon afterward the body of Bern's common-law first wife, Dorothy Millette, clothed in a black silk dress, was found in Georgiana Slough in the Sacramento River, caught in brushwood under low-hanging willows. Bern's will left all he had to Jean Harlow, but the Sacramento Public Administrator claimed half his estate for the estate of Dorothy Millette as his "legal" wife. In Hollywood, Jean Harlow in highly becoming black dropped...
...name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
...been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...Laying aside its aloofness, Phi Beta Kappa aligns itself with those who are seeking to lead the world out of its slough of despond. For the first time in 150 years this erudite?some even call it snobbish? society of college and university intellectuals faces the world with a declaration...
...from the sea 100 mi. to Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette Rivers, swam a small killer whale last autumn. There he was stranded. The press & populace of Portland, Ore. made much of him, christened him Ethelbert (TIME, Nov. 9). While the populace gaped and riflemen took pot shots, Ethelbert was discussed & debated by the Oregon Humane Society, which finally decided he would never get back to sea and therefore should be painlessly executed with dynamite. Before that could be done, one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert...