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...Eugene Regnier, rented a small farmhouse for the balance of August. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge invited a large party to his place in Forfarshire. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes was invited to the Duke of Montrose's estate, which an engagement with General John Joseph Pershing, also a keen visitor to the moors, prevented his accepting. The General and the Ambassador were inspecting War battlefields...
Going the rounds at Oxford University was a story about Professor Albert Einstein, a recent visitor there...
...great. It is known that no clouds or rain occur in the belt. There is a notion that the prevailing wind is easterly, counter to the earth's movement; but Professor Piccard last week snorted: "That's a lot of bosh." Also it was supposed that the stratosphere visitor in daytime would see stars shine in a purple sky. Piccard's sky was deep, dark blue but starless...
...issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek...
...Edwin Thompson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, lately called on President Hoover. Last week he broke the White House tradition whereby a visitor never quotes the President. He told a luncheon audience in Manhattan: "President Hoover said he felt a great deal of the difficulties of the present commercial situation were due to the mental condition of business...