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Died. Thomas Carroll, 78, oldtime fight trainer and athlete; after a brief illness; in Oakland. Calif. Among those he trained: James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, James J. Jeffries, the late Bob Fitzsimmons...
...that there is a fine poetry in the clattering bigness of industrial activity which rivals the tranquility of classicism. Several of the photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected by an underground level. A theatre and Opera House accommodating almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof...
...Within a few hours Mr. Gibson and Sir John were hot & bothered. They had to explain that of course they had not tried to exclude from the Conference the four Delegates who are female, Dr. Mary E. Woolley of the U. S., Miss M. Winifred Kydd of Canada, Mrs. Corbett Ashby of Britain and Mile Anne Szelagowska of Poland...
...which no two agree--and concede the point; they should remember that the line dividing idiomatic and colloquial French is ever tenuous, ever changing; and finally they should bear in mind that the spectacle of hairsplitting grammarians is matched in absurdity only by that of hair-splitting theologians. Oran Corbett...
...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...