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Died. Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, 84, go-between and No. 1 prosecution witness in the conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping; of pneumonia; in The Bronx. After the trial, the retired schoolmaster sold his account of his experience for magazine serialization, advertised himself in Variety as "the most enigmatic, colorful, and widely publicized personality in America," planned a countrywide vaudeville tour, got only as far as Plainfield...
...were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door afterwards and he admitted that his work in the C.B.S. house band is financially remunerative but artistically sterile...
Rich Emily subsidized a Home for destitute girls. Mr. Condon, the Episcopalian clergyman who ran the Home, came to get another $10,000. "The little I have will go to Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted...
Company F officers, submitting 19 photographs as entries in the contest leads all other companies. Company H, entering 13 candidates, is runner-up among the competitors. Company representatives helping conduct the contest include Ensigns Alden Wells, Jack-Condon, David G. Hall, George K. Trimpe Paul Deibels, and James Cunningham...
...Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program featuring their own favorite; any Harvard men interested in participating in this manner are urged to contact the writer for further information. For those of you who are blessed with powerful radios. Eddie Condon's Carnegie Hall sessions are aired over the Providence station Saturday afternoons at three o'clock. WHDH used to carry this program locally, but absence of appreciative mail caused them to drop...