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Shuffling past all these at a special preview last week went Andrew W. Mellon, his daughter Mrs. David Kilpatrick Bruce. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Junius Morgan, Miss Helen Frick and five members of her family, besides some 700 other socialites, to the great delight of society reporters. Almost unnoticed in the pack was a little old lady in a black hat: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie setting foot in the Frick house for the first time in her life...
...proxy fight for control of Madison Square Garden Corp. (TIME, Sept. 23), Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick (president) outpointed Colonel John S. Hammond (chairman) 144,000 to 129,000 votes. Starting in the club barroom of the famed sports arena, with a policeman at the door, the meeting lasted four days while election judges wrangled over the count. Colonel Hammond announced that he would challenge Colonel Kilpatrick's victory in the courts...
...opening night the jury seemed to have been packed by an astute pressagent. A verdict of "Not Guilty" was returned by twelve good men & true including Jack Dempsey, Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden and Edward J. Reilly, the Brooklyn lawyer who failed to get Richard Bruno Hauptmann acquitted. In the play's first week, less celebrated jurors convicted beauteous Actress Nolan only once. Author Rand is prepared for either decision. If the defendant is acquitted, the judge berates the jury for a bad decision. If she is convicted, defense asks for a new trial, the judge grants...
...vice-presidency in 1932, bought control in 1934, had himself made board chairman. His principal interest remains hockey, not prizefights. A one-time All-America Yale footballer who enlisted in the Army in 1916, got the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been bucking Colonel Hammond ever since the latter became board chairman. Last year Madison Square Garden did not run at a loss as it did the year before. That it has nonetheless lost most of its prestige in pugilism...
Which course it will take, and how, will depend upon whether Colonel Hammond has enough proxies to oust Colonel Kilpatrick at next week's meeting...