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Meanwhile his earnings piled up. In 30 years they reached an estimated total of $1,800,000. Although he always wore a derby when conferring with people in his office, he was fond of stylish clothes, wore a flower in his buttonhole, cut a figure about town. In time he acquired the 100-ft. yacht Margaret, became a commodore of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. He lived in Germantown, had a winter home at Hobe Sound, Fla. Last week, heart trouble took away his job in the only way in which it could be taken...
...songwriters, one serious (Jack Haley) and one deluded by conceit (Jack Oakie), who hitchhike from Manhattan to Hollywood, there indulge in romance, alcohol and creative work. Haley becomes attached to a blonde waif (Ginger Rogers) who meets the pair on their way West, follows them to Hollywood. Oakie grows fond of an erratic actress (Thelma Todd), who abandons him when he loses...
This Bishop Gallagher indeed did. Genuinely fond of Father Coughlin who caused his Bishop's rugged features to be perpetuated in a figure of the Arch angel Michael on his "Charity Crucifixion Tower" which radio receipts made possible, the Bishop has declined to interfere even when he disagrees with Father Coughlin's notions. Last week, disagreeing again, he nevertheless said: "No heresy has been preached. Father Coughlin in his addresses is advocating the principles set down by Leo XIII and Pius...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...
...middleaged, married (with a daughter, two sons), well-to-do (he owns a town house, an island and a Norman castle), with an admired position, with such intimates as William Butler Yeats. AE (George Russell). James Stephens. Dr. Gogarty lives sparklingly in Dublin. Once fond of driving his Mercedes at breakneck speeds along Irish lanes, he has now taken to the air. Says he: "It's the only excitement left the middle-aged man except the divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half...