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...champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...
...Standbys" (commercial radio musicians) are assessed $17 for each broadcast. Out-of-town musicians have to pay up when they play in Chicago. In 1933 his organization was prosperous enough for President Petrillo to build a $600,000 two-story building, to panel his office in red cedar, carpet it with a rich Oriental rug. Members of his organization pay their dues in a big room with green marble walls. They are directed to the room by an illuminated sign: STRAIGHT AHEAD TO PAY DUES...
...SALE: Cedar Island, .947 acre off Cedar Point, L. I., in the strait between Gardiners Bay and Shelter Island Sound. Includes historic, 97-year-old lighthouse and nine-room granite keeper's house. No conveniences, but ideal for recluse, romantic or for summer home. Send bid before Jan. 15 to U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington...
Such an advertisement might have appeared in the press last week if Secretary Morgenthau had been unable to get free publicity by a simple announcement. Replaced by a modern automatic light on a breakwater several hundred feet beyond it and turned over to the Treasury as "surplus property," the Cedar Island light was to become the latest of some 100 abandoned lighthouses sold to private owners since the U. S. lighthouse service was created...
David N. Mills, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Choate; Gardner C. Quarton, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Exeter; William P. Sockman, of New York City, Hill; Augustus W. Soule Jr., of Brookline, St. Paul's; Charles G. Swain, of Wollaston, Thayer; Charles F. Whiting Jr., of Cambridge, Belmont Hill; and Masao Yatsuhashi, of Brookline, Country Day School of Boston...