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Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...
...Finch had sold some of his stock to a Republican senatorial candidate, William Van Derveer Hodges, then endorsed him, reputedly a personal Wet. To Senatorial Nominee George Hamlin Shaw no stock was sold, no endorsement given (TIME, Sept. 8, Sept. 22). Other endorsed stockbuyers: Democratic Senatorial Nominee Edward Prentice Costigan, Governor William H. Adams, onetime Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, two district attorneys...
Died. Mrs. Helen Costigan Cohan, 74, retired actress, mother of famed Actor-producer George M. Cohan; of stomach trouble; in Monroe, N. Y. The vaudeville team of "The Four Cohans" (Jere J. Cohan, Mrs. Cohan, son George, daughter Josephine) was famed in the '90s; a Chicago theatre is named for them. George M. Cohan is the only survivor...
Frank Clark of Miami, Fla., for the vacancy left by Edward Prentiss Costigan, resigned, on the Federal Tariff Commission...
Used to the Costigan castigations, Chairman Marvin commented last week: "I part with him with a salute for his many fine qualities and wish him greater success and satisfaction in his new enterprises than he achieved as a member of the commission." Commissioner Brossard quoted sarcastically: "'Captain, they're all out of step...