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Engaged. Glenna Collett, 27, five-time (1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930) U. S. women's golf champion (a record), one-time (1925) winner of the French championship; and Edwin H. Vare Jr. of Philadelphia, construction engineer, golfer, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare...
...banknotes backed by this gold also enlarged to the maximum volume for all time: 75,950,000,000 francs. With France and the U. S. continuing their joint dominance of three-fifths of the world's monetary gold, attention riveted upon the strange aquatic behavior of Governor Montagu Collett Norman of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman (with his valet) and the Bank of England's recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded at Southampton the S. S. Bremen bound for New York. Already aboard was Governor George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve...
Though wily John Chapman is the only oldtime bicycle rider who has become important in promoting races, many other men now-famed in quieter trades were once pedalers. Some are: George Collett, father of National Woman's Golf Champion Glenna Collett; the late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange...
...Socialists, might be ignored by financiers. But last week the leading chieftains of international finance were plainly worried about Gold and the kindred problems of German reparations, Allied War debts. Within the fortnight Messrs John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young were in London, conferring with Rt. Hon. Montagu Collett Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Tipped off that Mr. Young was in Paris last week "incognito and making a great effort to keep his whereabouts secret," correspondents sought out Governor George Leslie Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at his Paris hotel, asked bluntly, "Have...
...play went smoothly on last week, it became evident that for once the expected upsets were not occurring. The top-notch players moved up without exception and the nearest thing to a surprise was when Mrs. Hill put out Maureen Orcutt in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal Miss Collett had her first real competition, but made it easy by winning the first three holes and outdriving Helen Hicks, said to be the longest-hitting woman alive. Miss Van Wie put out Mrs. Hill by being the steadier in a match in which neither was very steady. In the final, with...