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Died. Ethel Levey, 73, first wife of the late Song-and-Dance Man George M. Cohan, and musical comedy headliner of the U.S. and British stage (George Washington, Jr., Hullo Ragtime, Goodbye, Flo); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
...language is the same as that used in a 1936 award to George M. Cohan. It prevents the recipient from having the privileges of the floor of the House of Representatives, which in the cases of Cohan and Berlin was considered "neither necessary nor appropriate...
...cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
Playing in positions four and five, Larry Brownell beat Dave Maxwell 3 to 2 in five games, and Hadden Tomes won 3 to 0 from Don Cohan...