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...father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time...
Died. Clara Butt, 62, onetime milkmaid who became Great Britain's most popular contralto and a Dame Commander of the British Empire; after a long illness; in Oxford, England. Six feet, three inches tall and equipped with a voice so powerful that neither Albert Hall's organ nor the Coldstream Guards could drown her notes,, she was a favorite with royalty, performing many times before Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George...
...characters have come out of the Kentucky hills with a more impressive background for violence than George W. (for nothing) Barrett. Five years ago he killed his 73-year-old mother. After pinking his sister he gave her such a beating with a gun butt that she died six weeks later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent...
...York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious doctors butt one another unmercifully, Dr. Bowman has managed to hold three competitive teaching jobs simultaneously-in Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College...
...Paramount and Fenway this week offer a balanced diet of harrowing melodrama and rich, lush humor, both clearly above the Hollywood average. And that is praise of a sort, for we do not consider the Hollywood average a butt for sneers of contempt...