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...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
Asked to enumerate U. S. liberal editors of consequence, one might name Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation), Herbert David Croly (The New Republic)-and search one's mind in vain for others. Last week the little list was halved by Death, which came to Editor Croly in Santa Barbara, at the age of 61, of progressive paralysis...
...Manhattan socialite, from Marshall Field, Ill, grandson of the late Chicago department-store tycoon; at Reno, Nev. A settlement out of court gives Mrs. Field a $3,000,000 town house in Manhattan, more than $1,000,000 a year alimony, custody of the three children: Marshall IV, 14; Barbara, 11; Bernice...
Paul Whiteman weighs 248 Ib. His father was director of music in the Denver public schools, his mother sang in a Den ver choir. He got his start in Santa Barbara playing the violin and wearing a funny hat. After a tour of Africa with a string quartet, he worked in Tait's restaurant in San Francisco, was fired for not knowing jazz. He started a band of his own, borrowed money enough to take his men east where he got a job in the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. His pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped...
...Long Island City, N. Y., James Hughes, porter in a telephone building, took Miss Barbara Westlake and Mrs. Stephanie Werner, switchboard operators, up in an elevator, stopped it above the third floor, turned around and tried to buss Mrs. Werner. Miss Westlake became hysterical, Mrs. Werner jumped out of the elevator, fell down the shaft, died...