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Broadcaster Wons' books are collections of odds & ends which he recites alternate mornings in the "Tony's Scrap Book" period, and every evening on the Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman...
Seeking Divorce. Nancy Hoyt, 29. author (Unkind Star, Bright Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...
...Josiah Macy Erickson 70 William Francis Brooks 67 Duaue Weills Rainbolt 61 FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Edmund Austin Mays, Jr. 196 *Robert Morrison Faxon 143 *Wilson Hill Crosby 137 *Thomas Eliss Armstrong 131 *Donald Murdoch Frame 115 *Otto Ernest Fuerbringer 114 *Daniel Bliss Dorman 111 Crispin Cooke 106 Peter Morton Whitman 106 John Wilberforce Appel. III 99 Potter Palmer, III 98 Edwin Allen Locke, Jr. 87 John Bromham Hawes, III 86 Allan Wilfred Adams 75 Dudley Bradstreet Williams Brown 70 George Henry Pattison, Jr. 68 Total votes cast 258 *Elected
...Washburn, Groton School; B. H. Webber, Boston Latin School; Arnold Weiner, Boston Latin School; F. B. Wemple, The Loomis School, Windsor, Conn.; F. P. Whitbeck, The Loomis School, Windsor, Conn.; J. B. Wilkinson, St. George's School, Newport, R. L.; R. W. Wilson, the Phillips Exeter Academy; Morton Winer, Boston Latin School; L. T. Wing, Phillips Academy, Andover; F. E. Wood, Jr., The Phillips Exeter Academy; S. R. Yeslawsky, Boston Latin School