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Recently tests here proved that the average driver can see an obstacle only about half as far away when he does not expect it as when he does expect it, according to Roper. Light-colored objects were also discovered to be twice as visible as dark-colored once...
...Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs. One of only four dogs which have twice won Westminster's Best in Show-all four were fox terriers-was John Bates's wire Ch. Pendley Calling of Blarney, in 1930 and 1931. Seven times Bates has been chairman of Westminster Shows. For many years he raised Irish terriers. Nowadays, he shoots over twelve pointers four...
...staff for 31 years. Now a Sun editor for the first time, he bites off chunks of cigars and chews them with a new relish, slings his rough language around the Sun office and continues to be thoroughly sentimental about everything except the New Deal. At least twice a week he visits a friend at some hospital, each day answers every letter in his voluminous mail, including all the cranks...
Resentful of the New York Fair, which will be twice as big, San Franciscans point out that their fair buildings are costing slightly more to the acre than the eye-fillers on Flushing Meadows. One item in this cost is presumably the quantity of sculpture with which San Francisco's non-modernist but imposing buildings will be adorned. No less than 20 local sculptors had been working undisturbed with the exposition architects, until meaty Irishman Connick, who was chief engineer for the 1915 San Francisco fair and later finance chairman of Famous Players Lasky Corp., became executive director fortnight...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...