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Slays for Slaps. A party in the Manhattan boarding house of a Mrs. Mabel McGowan ended in a shooting scrape. Headlined the New York Telegram: LANDLADY SLAYS HOST. Mrs. McGowan sued for $50,000, was denied it last week when the Telegram proved a typographical error had changed "slaps" to "slays...
TREASURER *James Roosevelt152 John Cross II 70 Arthur Lithgow Devens 64 POET *Douglas Payne Adams 82 Harrison McGowan Parker 77 Theodore Hall, Jr. 60 Robert Meader Easton 34 Frederick William McNear, Jr. 34 IVY ORATOR *Albert Goodwill Churchill 151 Edward Trumbull Eatchelder 142 MARSHALS *Wallace Russell Harper 516 *James Elmer Barrett 229 *Gardner Lothrop Lewis 182 Lawrence Witherapoon Dickey 170 Bernard Barnes 163 Josiah Warren Potter 154 Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr. 144 William, Potter Lage 110 Thomas Frothingham Mason 103 NEW CONSTITUTION In Favor 163 Majority 23 ORATOR Edward M. M. Warburg 107 Robert Hayden Jones 104 Gerald Wallace Harrington...
...Gerald Wallace Harrington Robert Hayden Jones Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg FOR CHORISTER Bernard David Hanighen William Frost Mann Charles Matthew Underhill James Lindsay Ware FOR IVY ORATOR Edward Trumbull Batchelder Albert Goodwill Churchill FOR POET Douglas Payne Adams Robert Meader Easton Theodore Hall, Jr. Frederick William McNear, Jr. Harrison McGowan Parker FOR ODIST Robert Swain Morison Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene
Last week this prodigal orator, statesman, financier landed in Manhattan. With him landed also Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties...
...Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson, its organizer and producer, and to Gil Boag...