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...customs, collected nearly a thousand rare books on Indian lore;-another manifestation of his innate scholarliness. Today he is an authority on the history and habits of the Oklahoma Indian. For a wife he picked Mary Alice Hearrell, half-white, half-indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name for him is "Big Chief." They have four sons and a daughter. "Now the Negroes, the Indians and the poor white trash of Oklahoma have a Governor," exclaimed "Alfalfa Bill" upon his election, and the 172,198 Negroes...
...names of those on the receiving line will be announced in a few days. The members of the dance committee are E. B. Cole '32, F. M. Dearborn '33, N. B. DeNood '33, T. K. Dunstan '33, R. W. Emory '35, R. S. Hurburt '35, H. B. Johnston '34, T. F. Locke '35, Samuel Powell, Jr. '32, and J. L. Swarts...
...down North Rampart Street through admiring dusky throngs who planned to dance late that night at the Zulu ball. King Rex went on to the City Hall to receive the keys of the city and to the Boston Club to toast Queen Yvonne White, debutante daughter of Broker Sidney Johnston White. All afternoon maskers danced in the streets. After dinner came the parade of Camus (Spirit of Revelry). Before midnight the streets were growing quiet. In the Auditorium was held the exclusive Ball of Comus, whose Queen was Lucille Williams, debutante daughter of Lum berman Charles Seyburn Williams...
Shortly after the Franco-Prussian war, in which he had shrewdly enriched himself by selling foodstuffs to the French, a formidable British wholesale grocer named John Johnston found himself surprisingly afflicted with dyspepsia. Disgusted by the remedies then in vogue, he chose to make a new one, out of beef. Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril...
...fact that the Bovril board has the honor of including a member of the royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician...