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Another Derby candidate, Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire, winner of Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, stayed well up on the list of top three-year-old colts by winning the $23,025 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel race track. Repetoire, carrying a top-weighted 119 Ibs., ran the mile-and-a-sixteenth...
Died. Mrs. James Joyce (Nora Barnacle), 65, longtime confidante and literary midwife to her famed author husband; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland, where Joyce died ten years ago. A practical woman, she helped him settle down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country...
...Nora E. Cordingley, custodian of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, died instantly of a heart attack yesterday morning in the catalogue room of Widener Library...
...Harry Vaughan never fails the veterans," explained a member of the presentation party. "Why, the other day a colored [veteran] lost his shoes in a crap game. When General Vaughan learned of this man's plight, he called in his secretary and said, 'Nora, you take this $20 and you go get this man a pair of shoes . . .' That's why we gave Harry Vaughan the Distinguished Service Medal...
...Ghica, complained that the $23,200 in alimony which he pays each year to first wife Lili Damita is just too much for him: "I may have to print my own money soon unless the amount is reduced." Another outstanding Flynn liability: $6,000 a year to second wife Nora Eddington (now married to Singer Dick Haymes) for the support of their two children...