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...nation-wide drive to improve the German breed, Nazi officials ordered last week millions of "pedigree books" for humans similar to the stud books kept by animal breeders...
...TIME, Oct. 8, there appears on p. 50, an article under the caption Art. In the second paragraph it states: "A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he [Diamond Jim Brady] gave to Lillian Russell...
Most amusing to today's public was a design of a Pullman car which Mr. Brady liked to pin on his underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond...
With various Alabamian friends as guides he wandered over most of the State: through the Black Belt, studded with old plantations; the Red Hills, where the mountaineers still have no use for Ne groes or revenuers; the swampy Cajan country. He watched a Ku Klux meeting, was on the fringes of a lynching, visited with moonshiners, asked an old conjure woman for professional advice, heard a fiddlers' contest, listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being...
...capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart...