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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight, when she happened upon Marriage Certificate No. 40553, Myrtle Sands's eyes bulged, her heart jumped. The certificate proclaimed the union of Frank Wallace and Mae West, of Brooklyn, N. Y., April 11, 1911. To Myrtle Sands of Los Angeles and local cinemansions there could be only one Mae West-the big-bosomed, broad-beamed blonde of the films (She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Belle of the Nineties). Essential to the West tradition of cozy hospitality is the point that she has never married. Moreover, no biographer has been astute or energetic enough...
...bakeries was Cushman's Sons' branch at White Plains, N. Y., 20 mi. north of the New York City boundary. Last week Cushman's Sons mixed the bulk egg yolks with vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, milk and water to make custard filling for cream puffs and eclairs. Four thousand such pastries were sold one day to consumers in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and a score other communities. Next day two thousand eaters of those cream puffs and éclairs were violently sick at their stomachs, poisoned by pus germs in the custard...
...Buffalo, N. Y., as kinsmen of the late Michael Budnik carried his coffin into Queen of the Peace Church for the funeral, the coffin began smoking. The mourners opened the coffin, doused out the flames started by a cigaret that a mourner had dropped before the lid was put on. As the pallbearers carried Michael Budnik up the aisle of the church, the coffin smoked again. Thoroughly drenched, Michael Budnik was buried...
...annual meeting in Schenectady, N. Y. last week President Gerard Swope of General Electric reported March quarter profits up 37% to $5,390,000. Business booked during the first three months increased from...
Married. Esther Strachey, divorced wife of pinko Economist Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey; and Chester A. Arthur Jr., organizer for Utopia, pinko grandson of the 21st President of the U. S.; in Harrison, N. Y...