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...death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw has long been a subscriber. Largest order handled by Romeike in a single month was that of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission to which it delivered 76,203 clippings since Jan. 1, 39,771 in February alone. At the minimum rate of 4?, the bill to publicity-loving Congressman...
...battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes...
Last week's Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid were handicapped by the fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books...
...bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...