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...famed actor, secretly to Edith Campbell, 39, actress, daughter of onetime Mayor Joseph Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz.; at Huntington, L. I. This is Mr. Faversham's third marriage; he was divorced from the late Marian Merwin Faversham many years ago. His second wife, Julie Opp, famed actress, bore him two sons, died in 1921. Harry J. Walker, for many years manager of the Belasco Theatre, Manhattan, was Miss Campbell's first husband...
Lord Curzon was twice married. His first wife, who bore him three daughters, was Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. His second wife, widow of one Alfred Duggan, daughter of J. Monroe Hinds, former U. S. Minister to Brazil, bore him no children, but had three of her own by her first marriage...
...qualifying round of the Western Amateur Championship, dextrous Dexter Cummings of Omventsia (Lake Forest, Ill.), onetime Intercollegiate Champion (1923, 1924), bore witness to his manhood (last month he was graduated by Yale University) by bashing his way around the 6,780-yard Lochmoor links in 68 strokes. After a good night's sleep, he strode forth again and bashed out a 70-138 for 36 holes, a "world's record" for tournament play...
...have two fixed ideas well known to my friends, harmless obsessions with which I sometimes bore them, but which have a direct bearing on this important problem. The first is the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out he statement.... My second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope...
...Marysville, Pa., a child sat on a railroad track, played with a stray bolt, heedless of a freight, train which bore down upon it. The engineer jammed on the air brakes, but hisheavy cars had too much momentum; they shoved the engine forward; it could not stop. A fireman, one Bruce Hoffman, leapt from the engine, raced ahead, snatched the child to safety...