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Near Crawfordsville, Ind., Lawrence Swank accelerated his automobile, sped up the road, fearing that someone was shooting at him when a missile tore through the hood of his car. The missile: a 2½ in. meteorite...
...Fascist Deputies entered the Reichstag. When it last met they numbered twelve. Flushed with their great election victory (TIME, Sept. 22) they marched in coatless, each swelling out his Fascist "brown shirt," each flaunting the Fascist swastika on his left arm, each in khaki flare-pants, swank black leather boots-all proud that they had flagrantly, successfully broken the Prussian State ordinance forbidding "public appearance in political costume." Saluting the Reichstag and each other, the Browns roared: "Hail, Hitler! Wake up Germany! Down with the Young Plan." Bellowed back the Communist Deputies (who had threatened but failed to come...
Birthday. Edward Wentworth Beatty, Canadian Pacific Railway's president. Age: 52. Date: Oct. 16. Celebration: dinner given by Canadian tycoons-Sir Herbert Holt (president, Royal Bank of Canada), Sir Charles Gordon (president, Bank of Montreal), R. S. McLaughlin (president, General Motors of Canada) et al.-at swank Montreal Forest & Stream Club...
...Queen Marie returned 'from the U. S., H.R.H. began to dash about Bucharest with extreme speed and recklessness. In Rumania most people with automobiles are rich, and most rich people will not complain if their cars are dented or partially smashed by royalty. Indeed there is some swank in saying: "You see that dent? That's where Prince Nicholas sideswiped...
Designer Agha ruled that thenceforth headlines and picture captions would be devoid of capital letters. The capital letter was obviously an obsolete and needless convention; its omission was indubitably swank, European, thoroughly in keeping with the foreign spirit of the magazine. For five issues, therefore, Vanity Fair appeared with such captions as the following: eva le gallienne . . . the director of the civic repertory plays Juliet in her own production, with Jacob benami as romeo...