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many races. . . . She's a tough land under the oak-trees...
David R. V. Golding, Brooklyn, N. Y.; George H. Handelman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Henry F. Haviland, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; Albert C. Howell, Sandy Hook, N. J.; Charles D. B. Howell, Boston, Mass.; Ben B. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Liewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Ill.; Roland Kahn, New York, N. Y.; Herman A. J. Kiewiet de Jonge, Prangius, Switzerland; Frank W. Kroll, Elizabeth, N. J.; Paul B. Kurtz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Melvin Levine, Revere, Mass...
...Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
...other eminences are better marked: his Oak Park high school football teams, 1910 to the first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils...
...Actress Gertrude Lawrence. It still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village in an apartment he leased under an assumed name, transforming...