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Jovial Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Negro jazz-band leader, back in Manhattan after a two-month concert tour in Europe (TIME. June 12), declared the Prince of Wales had missed a train to hear his orchestra play in Liverpool. Said he: "Next time I saw the Prince of Wales was with a party of grand people in London. He says to me: 'I stayed over in Liverpool to hear you play.'Well, sir, what a fine spot for me to tell him, 'You're tellin' me, Prince, with 5,000 people banging on the doors...
...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne, took off from New York in their Lockheed monoplane for a two-month tour of the Labrador-Greenland-Iceland air route now being traversed by Balbo's Italian armada. The project is sponsored by Pan American Airways, of which Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser. From New York, where their plane was nearly fouled in mid-air by flying news photographers, the Lindberghs skirted the coast to North Haven, Me., there briefly visited their infant son Jon at the Morrow summer estate...
Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes...
Whether enough food got into Russian stomachs was an academic question to Walter Duranty and other Moscow correspondents until last week. Suddenly Dictator Josef Stalin returned, robust and vigorous, from a two-month holiday in his native Caucasus. Two days later the "Man of Steel" announced, for the first time, short food rations for not only all foreign correspondents but even for previously pampered foreign engineers...
...Last week, after a two-month survey based "upon the best information available," Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock estimated that there were 3,844 places in Manhattan to buy liquor. Until razed to make way for Rockefeller Center, many a speakeasy flourished within a cork-pop of the Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...