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Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...
...Jimmy" Johnston has been entering the Amateur for several years, always starting well, seldom going far. In private life he is a St. Paul, Minn., broker with a big-brown-eyed wife named Betty and two children. Having gotten by Ouimet, who put him out at St. Louis in 1921, he proceeded against Dentist Willing with his square jaw set. Dr. Willing was 1 up at lunchtime. Then, aged 33, on the 33rd green, "Jimmy" Johnston won the 33rd U. S. Amateur Championship, 4 and 3. California, though it had expected a Jones final, was pleased with Champion Johnston...
Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
William Loren Tallman, 23, 6 ft., black hair, blue eyes, for the murder last June of Mrs. Virginia Patty, broker's wife, found beaten to death with a brick in Tallman's apartment. Reward...