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...Mary Pickford appeared at the UT in her first "talkie," Coquette, and the freshly established "Air Colleges" were trying to attract "university men" to their summer courses in sport and stunt flying. The Illinois Retail Clothiers Association predicted that the college student for 1929 would wear a light gray suit, black shoes and a soft collar with rich cream...
...first time in three years, the Communist-infiltrated Guatemalan government backpedaled sharply on its Red line. Its leaders apparently realized that their stunt of importing a huge shipment of weapons from behind the Iron Curtain had not only angered the U.S. but had also stirred up the neighbors. One afternoon last week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters...
...encourage people to buy common stocks, 106 San Francisco brokers, banks, stores and other sponsors tried an old newspaper stunt. They sent a photographer out to take crowd pictures, circled a face in each one and ran the photos in the local papers. Every person circled could collect a prize of one share of common stock in a West Coast company. At the San Francisco Stock Exchange one day last week, the second lucky winner appeared to get her share of American Trust Co., worth $34.25. The winner: Mrs. Virginia Pennoyer Livermore, great granddaughter of J. P. Morgan...
...hour, open-hearth laborer, was elected president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer of steel. Millsop left the mills before he was 19 to become a Marine pilot during World War I. After his discharge, he barnstormed the country as a stunt flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton's president in 1936. In 1947 Mill-sop helped incorporate Weirton...
...waiting on the lawn when the Eisenhowers returned to the cottage for an appointment with the photographers. "See that David's hat is not resting on his ears," called Mamie. The President inspected the cap, decided it was fine, and he and Grandson David pulled a carefully rehearsed stunt on the waiting photographers. They strolled together, very casually, across the lawn. Suddenly Ike clapped his hands. David whirled, flipped open his jacket and pulled out a long-barreled western cap pistol. Then he snapped his trigger at the photographers. On the second try, he got off his shot...