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Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when he had had a mining engineer's job on the Comstock in 1895. Before the train snorted on, Messrs. Hoover and Mills and Mrs. Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover and Manhattan's onetime Congresswoman Ruth Pratt stayed behind in the coach. At Virginia City the party visited the famed crystal bar of the Washoe Club. Mr. Mills's grandfather had once signed its register. Many a Silver King in Nevada's great days had stood up to its bar. Mr. Hoover stepped up to sign the register, saw that photographers were setting up their cameras. He said, "Not now. No pictures in here." One photographer persisted. Mr. Hoover barked, "You take that camera out of here! I said there'd be no pictures." The photographer snapped anyway and Mr. Hoover flushed angrily, signed the register, left at once.

Last winter British Art Dealer Sir Joseph Duveen finished a long wait when King George V, no Duveen enthusiast, made him Lord Duveen of Millbank. Part-payment on the title was his gift to Britain of a new wing for London's National Portrait Gallery. Last week ruddy Duveen, a Lord at last, listened proudly in the Gallery's great tapestry-hung hall while King George ceremoniously declared the wing open through the "generosity of . . . Sir Joseph Duveen." Listening too were Queen Mary and Prime Minister MacDonald. From pictures on the walls Britain's dead great looked down. In a corner of the room sat fashionable Portrait Painter Sir John Lavery, sketching the scene. Now & then Duveen looked quickly toward him. Back in his studio Sir John set up a big canvas and went to work to preserve Lord Duveen's big moment for posterity in full color & detail.

Harvard University's retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell told the freshman class, "Gentlemen, I am at the end of the escalator . . . the bottom. You are at the top and starting down."

Going home from the British-Australian cricket matches which Britain won (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's able Bowler Harold Larwood was met at Suez by British sports editors. They offered him -L-1 per word for the inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with his life." Last week Larwood, a Nottinghamshire miner, turned down all publishing offers until the whole team, now in New Zealand, returns home. "Anyway," he said, "nobody knows what I know."

In London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded -L-4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul."

Back in Manhattan from Hollywood where he had supervised six two-reel contract bridge films for RKO Radio Pictures. Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game. Having agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game.

Dr. William Henry Walker of Manhattan told newshawks that his brother James John ("Jimmy") Walker, self-exiled in Cannes, France, is "in very bad shape. His whole system is disorganized . . . kidneys . . . heart . . . blood pressure. . . . When he left this country his pressure was low. Now it is alarmingly high." Brother James called on the marriage clerk in Cannes, France, with his "inseparable friend," Actress Betty Compton, to get "the necessary information."

Sailors on the British warships Glorious and Coventry anchored under a bluff near Cannes, France, looked up & saw the villa of retired U. S. Actress Maxine Elliott in flames. Landing parties rowed in, fought the fire for two hours. Loss: $100,000.

In a Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours.

For membership in the new genealogical Society les Chevaliers de Hastings (Paris), applicants must prove 900 years of descent from one of William the Conqueror's 315 blooded henchmen. U. S. applicants: American Locomotive Co.'s President William Carter Dickerman, Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.'s President Philip Dakin Wagoner, retired Pennsylvania Banker Mordecai Jackson Crispin.

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