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...ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were trampled to death, 62 others injured...
Engaged. Glenn Hunter, actor of boy-parts (Merton of the Movies, Young Woodley, Spring is Here); to one Babe Egan, vaudeville violinist, leader of a female orchestra (Hollywood Redheads), daughter of a Mr. & Mrs. Jack Egan of Portland, Ore. Immediately following the announcement, Miss Egan sailed for Europe, Actor Hunter remained in Manhattan...
John Francis Curry arrived from Ireland on Manhattan's west side as a babe in arms 55 years ago. His father was a cattle dealer. He went to work as a messenger boy, ran errands for prominent men. In those days, to be prominent was to be a politician. Young Curry became a politician, too; rose to be a leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority...
Married. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of Manhattan, potent baseballer (New York Yankees) and Mrs. Claire Hodgson, widowed showgirl; in Manhattan, at 5:45 a. m. The first Mrs. Ruth, long estranged from her husband and living with a dentist of Watertown, Mass., was recently burned to death (TIME...
...plenary session of the Second Dawes Committee (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) the creditor powers presented Germany with a grand total reparations bill of $28,000,000,000, payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with a reparations debt of $466. Even in the U. S. there are babes to whom $466 is quite a pot of money. Still, to a really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even...