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Railroadman Harahan had been too long in the business to retire in a fit of pique. Once messenger and clerk on the Louisville & Nashville, he became general manager of Illinois Central in 1904. From there he went to Erie as assistant to the president, later to Seaboard Air Line which he headed for six years and, finally, to C. & O. as president. When the Van Sweringens invited him to stay on as senior vice president under Mr. Bernet he swallowed his pride and accepted...
...nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...
...doctor sweethearts, a taste for radio concerts which leads to bickering because Erna prefers Wagner, Elizabeth Tchaikovsky. Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk at a nearby hotel. A lifeguard observed their talent, brought them to the attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much lipstick, wear clothes made by Mrs. Rompa. retire at 10 p. m. every night...
Married. K. M. James ("Jimmy") Lin, 27, post-graduate student at Ohio State University, nephew and adopted son of China's President Lin Sen; and Viola Brown, 24, Columbus, Ohio 5?-&-10?-store clerk; in Ashland, Ky. Said Father Lin: "I disapprove...
Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union...