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Twice Brooklyn-born Sydney Franklin (Frumkin) drove home a sire Estoque, and at each thrust a raging Toro died on the sand of Madrid's Plaza de Toros. But Spaniards jeered and pointed. Reason: Franklin's new bullfighting suit was salmon pink...
Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
...still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss Crane; his desire to be the "dare-devil aviator of Congress" and his purchase of many an old Army plane that would...
Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown...
...Oscar Wilde's guilt, and the nature of it, there has never been much doubt since his disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, when the Poet too loudly claimed the Peer had fouled him. The name usually coupled with Oscar Wilde's is Lord Alfred ("Bosie") Douglas, unfilial son of the unpaternal Marquess. After Wilde's sentence and imprisonment in Reading Gaol he rejoined Douglas on the Continent, but the two erstwhile boon companions soon quarreled for the last time. When Wilde died squalidly in Paris (1900), "Bosie" was far away...