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Last month stories that Ambassador Andrew William Mellon had shipped a hoard of gold to Britain and was afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest now, he said: "Nobody rests. But I will be free, and I think I have reached an age when I am entitled to be free."

Britons heard that their Edward of Wales, whose Grandfather King Edward VII was an able conjuror, is studying to be a magician, has already learned how to conjure a handkerchief into a union jack. Said his tutor: "He is now trying to master the egg-&-bag trick."

As damages for stumbling in 1928 in a dance on the stage of a Fox Theatres Corp. theatre in Brooklyn, a jury awarded

$30,000 to pouting, mop-headed onetime Film Actress Mae Murray, 39. Her case: The floor was uneven, she injured her left foot. She called the verdict "vindication, since many artists injured while working in theatres have to make the best of it because they are not in a position to sue."

In Ormond Beach, Fla., John D. Rockefeller Sr, reviewed the children's parade in a village street fair, watched a 5-year-old girl do a toe-dance. He asked a prizewinner, "What will you give me if I give you this ribbon?" The little girl gave him a kiss. He chuckled and kissed her hand, later put his hand on a child's head and spryly kicked over it.

Walking in Washington's Rock Creek Park while his wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help.

Pierrepont Burt Noyes, president of Oneida (N. Y.) Community Ltd. (silver) and his nephew knelt for 2,500 hours over a giant jigsaw puzzle 5 by 6| ft., finally fitted its 10,000 pieces into a picture of West Point Military Academy, proudly framed it.

Somebody entered the London hotel bedroom of Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck.

Ill lay: Britain's Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, of a cold in London; retired U. S. Consul General at London Albert Halstead and French Marshal Franchet d'Esperey, of serious injuries received when a taxi's brakes did not hold and an automobile rolled over, in Manhattan and Gafsa, Tunis; Italian Poet Gabriel D'Annunzio, of arthritis, in Gardone, Italy; Radio Singer Kate Smith, after a foot operation for blood poisoning, in Manhattan; Illinois' oldtime boss & U. S. Senator William Lorimer, of heart disease, in Chicago.

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