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Monday. April 23. 1938
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TAKING WRAPS OFF America's rocket engine power developed for intercontinental
and space travel, North American Aviation engineers set off mighty blast for newsmen
t test center in Santa Susana Mountains, near Los Angeles. (International Smndphoto)
Newlyweds Sit Down To Big Breakfast
With No Consideration for Calories
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
New York U.R) This is
a month of big marriages.
A bride and groom who came
here on their honeymoon and
stayed for breakfast are right
in stride. Their combined weight
is 1005 pounds.
At a time when much of
America is at war with the cal
orie, it's a pleasure when one of
them mates up with a trencher-
woman.
A breakfast interview with
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cowan
left no doubt that some people
still know how to eat in the
grand manner. The bride weighs
365 pounds; the bridegroom,
640.
The Cowans - were brought
here from a street side show in
Tennessee as sort of a press
agent's dream for a honeymoon
breakfast at a local restaurant.
The publicity declared that Cow
an alone would "consume 8 to 10
regular chickens or 18 pounds of
steak, 15 pounds of potatoes,
three quarts of buttermilk, a
lemon meringue pie, etc."
When the happy couple arriv
ed for breakfast, the board was
groaning before them with ap
proximately: 15 pounds of T
bone steak, six two-pound broil
ed chickens, 14 pounds of fried
potatoes, three quarts of milk,
six long french loaves of bread,
a small mountain of tossed salad,
and a towering wedding cake.
Growling Photographers
The couple dived in, while
photographers snapped and
growled Cowan, who is six-feet-
one and 23 years old, eats steak
by dropping slices into his
mouth with his left hand, spurn
ing the fork. Mrs. Cowan does
likewise. She's five-feet-seven
and 21.
TV and newsreel photogra
phers directed each bite, arguing
apace with each other. "You fel
lows always fight like that?"
asked Cowan. "We love each
other like brothers," a photogra
pher told him.
The eaters finished, wiping
their lips. It was apparent that
the press agent had dreamed if
that is the word too big. Most
of the food was still in front of
them, untouched. A reporter ap
proached and asked Cowan if
he ever could eat that much.
"Nah," he said. "Hell, there
isn't any four men in their
right minds could eat all that."
The bride had announced they
planned to go on a diet. Queried
about what kind of a diet, she re
plied: "Lemon juice and love."
Cowan was asked how come
the diet plans. "It's just a gag
more'n anything else," he said.
The reporter asked just what
he did eat to keep his weight up.
Two Meals
"Two big meals a day," said
Cowan. "About 9-10 a.m., a box
of cold cereal with a couple ba
nanas cut up on it, half a quart
of milk, and six or eight soft
boiled eggs. During the day I eat
four to six grapefruit. Then,
about 5-6 p.m., I'll eat two
pounds of beef with lots of vege
tables." Through some inscrutable
reasoning process, the thin man
at the circus, Glen Pulley, also
was brought in to the breakfast.
Pulley is six-feet-two and
weighs 60 pounds and looks ev
ery inch his weight. He ordered
milk and cookies. The milk
came. The publicity man left
and, after a time, returned with
the cookies.
"What a great bit!" he grin
ned, eyes a-gleam. "Here we're
in Maisel's, one of the biggest
restaurant chains, and we want
cookies no cookies! I had to go
out to the automat and get
some."
He seemed real happy. So did
the photographers. So did the
newlyweds.
Drug Shows Promise
In Cancer Treatment
San Francisco (U.P.) A new
drug similar to the deadly
mustard gas used in World War
I has shown promise in the
treatment of Hodgkin's disease
and other forms of lymphatic
Ike, GOP leaders
To Discuss Taxes
Washington U.R President
Eisenhower will huddle with
Republican Congressional lead
ers Tuesday to discuss recent
forecasts of budget surpluses and
accompanying pressures for an
election-year tax cut.
Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.)
disclosed Saturday that the
budget situation will get priority
at Mr. Eisenhower's weekly
White House meeting with Re
publican legislative leaders.
Bridges said Treasury Secretary
George M. Humphrey also will
be present.
Bridges said he has conferred
already with Treasury depart
ment officials and with the Pres
ident's aides.
It was understood that the
purpose of the White House hud
wio would be to make plans for
playing down any talk of tax
cuts at least for tne time being.
The administration first wants
to take a close look at govern
ment spending ana receipts in
late May.
Stevenson Asks Bomb
Tests Be Cancelled
Washington (U.R) Adlai E.
Stevenson said in a speech Satur
day that the administration
should consider calling off the
H-bomb tests in the Pacific next
month.
America is losing friends
around the world because of a
growing reputation as a "mili
tarist" nation, the Democratic
presidential aspirant said.
"I believe," he said at a lunch
eon meeting of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors,
"we should give prompt and
earnest consideration to stopping
further tests of the hydrogen
bomb ... I question the sense
in multiplying and enlarging
weapons of a destructive power
already almost incomprehensible."
cancer, it was announced Sat
urday. The Ameican Cancer Society
said two University of California
scientists have found that the
sulfur mustard drug "also ap
pears to have beneficial effects
in certain patients with lung
cancer. It was empnasizea tnat
the findings are based only on
extensive animal experiments
and tests on 27 human patients.
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SUBDUED Sheriff Arthur Johns, bleeding from cut
under eye, subdues Jack Dempsey demons, 32, Burr Oak,
Mich., who struck Johns when latter was trying to arrest
him. Clemons, while on a drunken spree, visited his ex
wife, Mrs. Grace Bratcher, 24, near Peru, Ind., to see two
children couple had when together. While there, Clemons
threatened Mrs. Bratcher's new husband. Police were
called and in the ensuing tussle, Clemons hit Johns in
te eye with a rock. -
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood vU.R After 53
years of high living and then
quiet old age, one of Hollywood's
? famous land-
marks the
Hollywood Ho
tel has been
condemned to
oblivion.
Since 1949
the new own
ers have been
threatening to
tear down the
Alme Mosby faded, crumb
ling hotel on the corner of Holly
wood blvd. and Highland ave.
Next month they'll at last' get
around to it and put up an
office building and a new hotel.
I dropped in for a last look at
the landmark and found Mana
ger Leslie Jeffries waving tour-
ists around the lobby.
"Hundreds come here every
day for a last look since the
razing was announced," he said.
End Foreseen
"We knew the end was com
ing. But," he sighed, "it was
quite a blow."
The Hollywood hotel is the
symbol of early Hollywood.
Then stars were truly flamboy
ant, there was no television and
southern California was young
and smogless.
The hotel opened May 3, 1903.
Hollywood then was country.
Barley fields and orange groves
surrounded the hotel and cows
wandered down the dusty road
out in front. The hostelry was
an hour's ride from Los Angeles.
In 1912 wild men of the mo
vies replaced the wild oranges
and Hollywood became a hust
ling place. Rudolph Valentino,
Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri,
Charlie Murray and Mary Pick
ford were among stars who
thronged to the hotel.
Gay Life Told
Life was gay in Hollywood
then. Once the manager had to
nail the first floor windows shut
to train merry guests to come
in the front door.
There was a movie and radio
show cabled "The Hollywood
Hotel." But when plushier ho
tels were built in other parts of
the city, the Hollywood Hotel
became an inexpensive home for
tourists" and elderly film work
ers. Actor Grant Mitchell is one
of 80 permanent residents now
searching for another place to
live.
Today the old hotel sits out
its last days almost unnoticed
while streetcars clang by.
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