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...Chicago, Irving K. Pond, one-time President of the American Institute of Architects, celebrated his 70th birthday last week with able handsprings and headsprings.* On hearing this news, Chester Lavere, 57, another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there...
Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...
...MacCracken is young at 37. He has the same pioneering blood zooming through his arteries as have the youthful Air Secretaries Davison and Warner. With these three men in Washington, U. S. aviation is expected to emerge from the blimp era. Secretary MacCracken is a Chicagoan by birth, education, residence. The Uni versity of Chicago taught him letters and law. In the Army he taught flying at Houston and Waco, Texas. After the War he returned home, practiced law, be came Secretary of the American Bar Association. His specialty is aeronautic law. He helped formulate the Air Commerce Act, recent...
...Strong, include Reuben H. Donnelley, J. V. Farwell II, Thomas D. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, Joseph E. Otis, James A. Patten, George F. Porter, Julius Rosenwald, Harold Swift, Lucius Teter. Mr. Strong, long active in the business, now controls. So highly is he regarded that when a Chicagoan heard casually at a dinner party that Mr. Strong might not get the paper, he said: "I'll put in half a million to see Strong...
...jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that...