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Engaged. Francis Wollsey ("Buss") Bronson, 25, recent author of a first novel, Spring Running, to Miss Helen L. Silkman, 21, Manhattan bookseller...
...phrase 'So's your old man' came to me while in a rather an amusing situation. It was at a benefit banquet and a group of actors, including myself, were waiting on the tables. A little Italian buss boy volunteered to explain to me my duties. The last sentence of his very broken and totally unintelligible discourse sounded like some remarks about my 'old man,' so I replied 'So is your old man' and the expression started. As you can see the emphasis was, in its first use, on the third word...
...Young, S.S. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Budlong, 2b. 2 0 0 3 1 0 Hennessy, 3b. 4 0 0 1 2 1 Swaffield, l.f. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Minnerly, 1b. 4 0 0 11 0 0 Nourse, p. 4 0 1 0 5 0 *Buss. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals...
Earned run--Harvard. Left on bases--Harvard 6, Brown 8. Sacrifice hits--McCall 3, Currier 2, Harding. Stolen base--Aronson. Double play--Leonard to McCall to Harding. Bases on balls--Off Hicks 3; off Nourse 3. Struck out--By Nourse: Harvey 2, Hicks 2; by Hicks: Hennessy, Swaffield, Buss, Minnerly. Nourse 3. Hit by pitched ball--Lanigan. Umpire--Connelly. Time...
...Buss batted for Swaffield in ninth...