SOME CURIOUS POLICIES
GOLFERS INSURE FEET. Noses, legs, hands, feet, cutaway coats, and baggy trousers are among the items on the insurance policies of celebrated American golf champions, cinema stars, and musicians. Perhaps the most unusual case, says the British United Press, is that of Mrs. Blanche Cavitt, of Oklahoma City, an expert on perfumes, who has insured her nose for £IO,OOO. Mr. Horton Smith and Mr. Walter Hagen, the golfers, have insured their hands and feet, the former for £5,000. land the latter for £IO,OOO. A favourite policy among theatrical people, issued by Lloyds, is known as the searred-face policy. It protects actors against loss through injury to any facial feature which helps to sustain their popularity. Among the film stars thus insured are Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Norma and Constance Talmadge, Bebe Daniels, Vilma Banky, John Barrymore, and Ronald Colman.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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144SOME CURIOUS POLICIES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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