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Artist Doughty's bird-making was interrupted when, after the fall of France, she took a job in the Royal Naval dockyard at Chatham, Kent. Later she was injured at the yards, returned to her porcelain birds in Cornwall. There she lives quietly with her mother, spends most of her days in her studio. The U.S. bird series now numbers ten pairs. Among them: goldfinches, chickadees, indigo buntings, Baltimore Orioles, mockingbirds. One of the fortunate owners of a complete set of Doughty birds: former director of National Audubon Society Mrs. Carll Tucker...
...Ragtime Jimmy" played in the classic razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner...
Wrote he: "As a promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...
Amassing 230 votes out of a total of 459, Burditt of Winthrop House and La Grange, Illinois, led Eusden of Dunster House and Newton by 33 votes. Drake of Winthrop House and Chatham, N. J., was third with 183 votes. Hugh Hyde came in fourth with 157 votes, and A. LeRoy Atherton, Jr. received 130 votes for fifth place...
...same time, under wartime rules for selecting students to the Council, two men were last night appointed to fill vacancies created by departing Seniors. E. Thayer Drake '44 of Chatham, New Jersey and Winthrop House, and George R. Hooper '45 of La Grange, Illinois and Eliot House, have been chosen to serve one year terms...