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Died. Frederick Brooks, 74, board chairman of Brooks Bros., famed Manhattan clothiers: in Southampton. L. I. He was the third generation of his family in the store. In the fourth generation his son Winthrop is the company's secretary and director. Eight years ago a suit and overcoat made by Brooks Bros, sold for $6,500; they had been worn by President Lincoln at the time of his assassination...
...passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...
...voluminous is Britain's new tariff schedule that neither the Press nor the U. S. Department of Commerce had the bulky document cabled over last week, but copies were rushed down to Southampton and put aboard the S. S. Berengaria for delivery this week in the U. S. Even the new rates are "temporary,'' emphasized Sir George May; will probably be revised after Mother Britain has clucked with her dominion chicks at the coming Imperial Conference in Ottawa...
Upon his arrival at Southampton a rainy gale kept Mr. Mellon aboard S. S. Majestic over night. Newshawks pressed into his cabin to find him warming himself against an electric radiator. He told them pleasant nothings. Was he afraid London's climate would hurt his health? "Ah, you're trying to lead me into an interview," declared the benign Ambassador. Counselor Ray Atherton of the London Embassy who had come down to meet his new chief, replied for him with a determined...
...went out to investigate "Radithor," made by Bailey Radium Laboratories at East Orange, N.J. Robert Hiner Winn, attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, interviewed Byers at his Southampton home last September. Last week Attorney Winn described the scene: "A more gruesome experience in a more gorgeous setting would be hard to imagine. We went up to Southampton where Byers had a magnificent home. There we discovered him in a condition which beggars description...