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...dentist, nonchalantly began to remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach, at his home in Whitestone, L. I. He circled slightly coming to the standard, kicked up with...
...also the distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Cromwell built the chevaliers a beautiful little pink marble museum near their palace on the Quai d'Orsay. Commander Cromwell be came a Grand Officer of the Order with a large plaque to pin on his dress coat. Among his other benefactions may be listed the American Braille Press for the blind of which he is founder-president. and the $630,000 which he recently gave to the New York County Lawyers Association. In May Mr. Cromwell donated $50,000 to further scientific research...
...intercession, he tried to make Counsel Seabury believe, was only in the interest of international goodwill. Lawyer Hickin refused to waive immunity, would not tell to what Tammany man he passed on $45.000 shortly after N. G. L. paid his fee. Provoked at Investigator Seabury's failure to "pin anything on the higher-ups" in Tammany, the New York Daily News, saucy tabloid, declared: "Stop spraying everybody with skunk juice and bag us a lion...
Immediately after the Bond Club luncheon, he got news that sent him and Mrs. Hurley fairly flying back to Washington. Their daughter Ruth, 9, had swallowed a Red Cross pin. (Damage: zero...
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, hav-ing swallowed a Red Cross pin; former Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, 83, of Tennessee, in Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...