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Several days went by. Officials considered using helicopters, blimps. The climbers had another try. failed. Said one official sourly: "We hate to jeopardize the lives of our men for a stunt that someone thought was smart...
...only surprise in Harlow's starting lineup is Junior--John Page at center. Although it was known that Burgy Ayres would not be able to repeat his iron-man stunt of last year against the Red and Blue, the big Senior had been working out on Team A for the past week. It is certain that Ayres will see action, and plenty of it, during the game even if he does start on the bench...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
...them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
From another Navy man came the fightingest speech of all. Lieut. Commander Austin Hopkinson lit into Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, said he would organize plane production as a newspaper stunt. ("Straight from the shoulder," commented Publisher Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express...