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...boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green & pink walls and flanked with tall striped barber poles...
...great relief to PWA, to the College Art Association, to Architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and Chester Holmes Aldrich and to Edward Laning last week to learn that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible...
Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...
...Ames, B. F. Bart, R. T. Benjamin, F. S. Bigelow, P. T. Brooks, S. D. Browne, W. A. Burnham, J. J. Cabitor, J. L. Calvocoressi, S. Cobb, E. B. Cochran, A. H. Corbett, G. F. Cronkhite, R. J. Cumming, N. DeVore, A. C. Drinkwater, F. C. Eaton, K. A. Ehrman, D. Emerson, D. Eriskson, C. W. Foy, R. H. Gannon, H. S. Geodhue, N. Goodwin, W. W. Hancock, F. W. Hatfield, M. L. Hayward, J. Horowitz, J. C. Hunsaker, J. P. Hunsaker, C. G. Hutter, James H. Jackson, M. D. Jacobson, M. V. Jennings, T. Kaplan, W. S. Kemp, Fred...
...lady from Tiffin, Ohio and 299 other feminists from 30 countries appeared triumphant last week in the Royal Yildiz Harem of Abdul Hamid "The Damned" (deposed 1909, died 1918). "As President of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship." crisply observed Britain's Margery Corbett Ashby, "I think we can all feel that 1934 was a notable year. In 1934 the women of Brazil and the women of Turkey were accorded the vote and equal status with...