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...Others: for divorce-law reform (he wrote Holy Deadlock); for topless bathing suits (men's); in defense of the King's English against fancy talk (''supplementary servings without charge" should read "free second helpings...
While wealthy, much-married Mrs. Margaret Emerson, mother of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, was at the Saratoga races, fire broke out in her 24-room mansion at Sands Point, L.I., reduced it to a topless shell. Saved: some family portraits, a few other art works, a set of ebony chairs...
...since the Exposition's attendance was just reaching new highs for the year. But Exposition officials, foreseeing November rains, feared a late-fall attendance drop, decided there would be more profit in packing two months' business into one. Last week they were getting ready to raze the topless towers of Treasure Island, to liquidate the Exposition that does not have to run a second year to save its face or its bondholders (of whom it has none...
...last fights fought by the late Royal S. Copeland was for adequate antiaircraft equipment for the army. As Senator from New York, he could well visualize what might happen to the topless towers of Manhattan if enemy bombers ever laid eggs among them. Inland Senators were apathetic, but other coast Senators agreed. He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went...
...Police will arrest for topless suits in Atlantic City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Syracuse, N. Y., Toledo, Galveston, El Paso, Springfield, Mass., Birmingham, Evansville, Ind., Baltimore...