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Distinctions enjoyed successively by the late Robert Bacon included the following: a Bostonian birthright; education at Harvard; member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; credit for founding the International Mercantile Marine; Assistant Secretary of State in the Roosevelt Cabinet (full Secretary from January to March in 1909); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France (1909-1912); a major on the staff of General Pershing in the A. E. F. When Major Bacon died in 1919, he left his widow one more distinction, seemingly one that would last. Their distinguished home in distinguished Manhattan was at the unique address: "One, Park Avenue...
Idlers, lacking cash, heard little clamor from the crevices of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Jack Sharkey, Bostonian, eminent contender for the world's heavyweight championship, was battling Tom Heeney, New Zealander. The fight was promised as an important preliminary for the next Gene Tunney championship bout. Outpouring spectators complained Friday, 13, was unlucky for them. The fight was dull; declared a draw...
Besides jack-knives, the White House had an abundance of turkeys (nine of them), ducks, partridges (many a brace), Michigan potatoes (one sack), giant beets (one bushel), South Dakota honey (ten pounds). From Louis Liggett, Bostonian friend of the President, came the millionth rifle manufactured by the Winchester Arms Corp...
...makes good in the West. Even the elements assisted in a noticeable congealing process as the first citizen of that boisterous, windy, middle western metropolis blew into town. For there persists a feeling that Mr. Thompson has vulgarized bigotry and ignorance,--a thing wholly abominable to the Bostonian tradition of suppression. "More and taller flag poles", is "Big Bill's" opening contribution to Americana. "All the better to sit upon," is the only reply from the birth place of that typically American pastime...
...total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time, all that Mr. Sharkey won was the right to meet Mike McTigue (TIME, March 14); from whom he won the right to meet his fellow Bostonian, Edward James Maloney; from whom he won the right to meet onetime Champion Jack Dempsey; from whom, last week, he was getting ready to try to win the right to meet Gene Tunney, actual champion du monde...