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...bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting him publish Vanderbilt's Los Angeles tabloid. Publisher Boddy made good his sales talk by building the Illustrated Daily News into one of the Coast's outstanding newspapers, noted for its bold and colorful handling...
Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...
Last week, Owner Yawkey closeted himself with Manager Joe Cronin. then handed Philadelphia's Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
...Like Me Bach On Christmas Night Old English--arranged by Vaughn Williams The Hunter Brahms Scripture Luke II, 1-19 Carol of the Flowers Red God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Old English Bethlehem Glatz Folk Song Hymn by Congregation Pampanites Andalusian Folk Song Salvation Is Created Tschesnokoff Three Kings Cornelius Deck the Halls Old English Organ Postlude: Hallelujah Chorus Handel
...driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery...