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...Giannini, No. 1 U. S. branch-banker and John Francis Neylan, oldtime San Francisco newsman and now William Randolph Hearst's shrewd, hawk-nosed general counsel, were elected directors of Manhattan's National City Bank. Taking two of the three seats vacated by Charles Edwin Mitchell, Hugh Benton Baker and Percy Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City...
...next-door neighbor, Arthur C. ("Dazzy") Vance of the National League (long with Brooklyn, now St. Louis). She has made as much as $500 a week in exhibition games. Last week she signed to pitch at $1,000 a month for the able, bewhiskered House of David team of Benton Harbor, Mich., which tours the East and Midwest in sum mer, carries a $40,000 lighting rig for night games. Four hours before a scheduled court hearing to determine whether he was too feeble-minded to stand trial, Joseph Wright Harriman, 66-year-old indicted Manhattan banker, disappeared, second time...
Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D...
...romance; it is a department store homily in which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward he is Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis...
Miss Verande's desire to keep up her art studies and her dancing at the same time was the basis for the Academy of Arts. One Sunday morning she telephoned two of her friends; Sculptor William Sewell, pupil of Thomas Benton and the late great Antoine Bourdelle, and Composer Hugo Frey, well-known song writer and musical comedy arranger. They rented a floor in a 39th Street building, moved in a piano, two large mirrors, a model stand and some easels, and opened their university...