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...about my trip?" Said Miss Gillespie's mother: "The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . ." At a Manhattan auction of the furnishings of the home of the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon...
Thereafter Mr. Watrous showed his hippogriff elsewhere in Lake George. "Within a few days, you couldn't see a Negro [servant] within a mile of the lake shore." He ceased exhibiting it when, one day, he "released the monster just as a pair of newlyweds came along in a canoe. With one glance at the vision and utterly ignoring his bride, the young man leaped into the lake, struck out for shore. . . . When he sought to make up . . . she refused to speak...
Cavalcade, Mrs. Sloane's colt, prepared for his pair of spectacular victories last week by beating Singing Wood in the Hyde Park Stakes last year. But still other Derby material, notably Bazaar and Discovery, have shown heels to Cavalcade. Mrs. Sloane's High Quest is not entered in the Derby, but she may have three more horses in the race...
...Europe new ideas and a sound reputation, Dr. Welch took over the organization of Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1884, became dean of its faculty in 1893. First to set up a pathological laboratory at a medical school (Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan), he was the first medical educator to pair research with instruction. Called "Popsy" by friends and students, Dr. Welch was portly, friendly, modest. He was one of "The Four Doctors" of the vivid Sargent painting which hangs in the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins. Of the others -Sir William Osler, Dr. William Stewart Halsted...
...present Cornell is leading the league, thanks to a pair of victories taken from Columbia last weekend. When Harvard played that same Lion outfit on April 24, the result was a 4-1 victory and a 6-2 defeat. On that occasion, the last game the weather-man permitted Mitchell's proteges, Loughlin was in top form, while Braggiotti who was pitching his second stretch in three days, wasn't quite up to what he had shown against Tufts and Providence...