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...live in a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National!" enthused Mr. Hamilton. "All of the Soviet officials I have dealt with are cultured and really swell persons! They are paying me so much that in three years I shall be independently wealthy. My salary is paid monthly in American money and I have special permission to take money out of Russia. I tell you it's a paradise for an architect like...
...those to come alive was the girl in blue in the new Chesterfield cigaret advertisements. Said she, named Hazel Grace: "I take care of my aged grandmother. All artists are swell, just swell. I have never been insulted." Another was little black-eyed Dorothy Hart, one of Artist Haskell Coffin's magazine cover models. Said silver-haired Mrs. George Snyder: "I have been insulted. An artist actually had the nerve to ask if my hair was genuine...
Through the narrow streets rushed the yelling rabble of boys and young men, while women cheered from the safety of windows. From every doorway came male recruits to swell the throng. Across the city they ran, the foremost bull not three paces behind the last man. At the plaza the path of the encierro is marked by fences, behind which hundreds of tourists and visitors watched. A few, carried away by the excitement, vaulted the fence, joined the runners. Occasionally a runner fell, lay still while the bulls, their eyes on the moving mass, pounded over them. From the plaza...
...that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel's diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death...
...last week. Tri-Continental Corp., sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., bought control of Broad Street Management Corp. which carries with it control of Capital Administration Co., Ltd., an investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and a management contract with Broad Street Investment Co. The purchases swell the net assets controlled by Tri-Continental to over $40,000,000 by adding...