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The Inventor. Electrical genius made D. D. Knowles an enfant terrible in his early youth. From wiring doorknobs and pianos to shock imprudent visitors in his Ohio home, he turned to electric traps for the destruction of hen-ravishing hawks. Less than four years ago he was graduated by Purdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly-Power, Knowles | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

E. M. Statler, hotel operator: "My son Milton likes jazz and he can play the traps. Last week he proposed to me that I let his friend, young Roger Wolff Kahn, furnish dance music for all my hotels for about $1,000,000 a year. I said that I approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

The man with whom the Nestoroff betrayed Giorgio was the latter's sister's fiancé, one Aldo Nuti. Aldo now reappears, just before the taking of the tiger scene. He has come for her or for revenge. She scorns him. She turns his revenge upon himself. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

December, January, February, March. A thousand golf courses lie in expensive desuetude. Eighteen thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfery | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

The following instruments will be accepted for the Mandolin Club: mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass viol. For the Banjo Club the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and the piccolo are eligible.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS CALL OUT CANDIDATES | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

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