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...Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last August he went into bankruptcy listing among liabilities of $4,907.39 a $1.48 laundry bill. Last January he went out of bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself...
...contestants were driven to the field in a pair of coaches-and-twos, which were put on the cuff as far as Lampoon remuneration goes. Once on the field, doughty Carfare organized his cohorts, including 17 infielders, and teed the slab. At first he experienced difficulty with his control and walked some 14 men. Her he steadied down and got the ball over the plate...
...stop within the practice area on Commonwealth Avenue and suggested that Bernice, with whom the Vagabond was just becoming acquainted, take the helm--or one of them. There was a major reshuffling as Bernice disengaged herself from the heap of girlhood, hooked her heel in the Vagabond's cuff and catapulted into the front seat, to replace Mary who was already nosing down for a landing...
...182The President celebrated his 56th birthday one day early with a dinner for the "Cuff Link Club"-Roosevelt intimates who have been awarded gold cuff links for faithful service.* On the night of the President's Birthday Balls-to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign-he broadcast a personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox...
...Among the Cuff Linkers are Boston's James Sullivan, stenographer on the 1920 Vice Presidential campaign train, Charles McCarthy, assistant to the late Louis McHenry Howe, White House Secretaries Steve Early and Marvin Mclntyre...