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...March 1 Allan Hoover, younger son of the 31st President of the U. S. was to leave the lands department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, go to farming on 500 acres he and friends had bought near Bakersfield...
Sued. John Barry Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his brother Allan A. Ryan; for $164,571, representing payments due (plus interest) from an agreement among Brothers & Sons Allan, John, and Clendenin by which Brother Allan was to receive $50,000 yearly for life from each of the other two. Son Allan was cut off in his father's will from an estate valued at $135,164,110, got only a set of pearl studs worth...
...strengthened by additions from the Jayvees. Among those who were members of the Junior Varsity last year and who are expected to fill the shoes of the men who were lost by graduation are Dorilio C. Bragiotti '35, James F. Carty '35, Martin Victor '35, and Frank W. Allan '34. Carty, Bragiotti, and Victor were members of the Freshman team of two years ago and all have seen service on the Jayvees. Victor was the first-string twirler on the Freshman team of that year and with the additional seasoning is expected to help make up for the loss...
...Edgar Allan Poe took his 20-year-old wife Virginia Clemm and his mother-in-law to a "rose-covered cottage" at No. 530 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia. There he wrote The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...
...Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine). Though murder stories have long been the main meat of a solid minority of U. S. readers, the quality of the domestic supply has been fortified by English importations. But no longer can oldsters shake their heads over the departed glories of Edgar Allan Poe. In Dashiell Hammett the U. S. has again a first-rate writer of crime stories, as indigenous to his country and his day as Bret Harte was to his. This week Hammett fans are racing each other to the bookstores to get his latest, The Thin...