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Married. John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., 77, philanthropist; and Martha Baird Allen, 56, former concert pianist, widow of one of Rockefeller's Brown University classmates; he for the second time, she for the third; in Providence...
Wild Bill Davison holds the fort at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street hideaway, with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder in the band and Ralph Sutton working the intermissions. Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkis, and Art Tatum are at New York's new jazz spot. The Embers, 161 East 54th. Pea Wee Erwin is at Nick's, at 10th and Seventh, and Conrad Janis is at, Ryan's the last holdout of the once famous 52nd Street...
...League figured a little more definitely in the East-West game, played San Francisco on December 30. John Clayton and Bob McCraney (Dartmouth), Poland Donan and Jack Davison (Princeton), and Bernio Lemonick (Penn) all are on the East squad...
...Davison, like the other East fullbacks, could gain nothing up the middle, and is hurt badly. Clayton and McCraney alternated at quarterback, and called plays full, but were hampered by the ineffectiveness of the fullbacks. Clayton used his pillar bootleg play well, but was equalled in that department by Fran Nagle (Nebraska), West quarterback...
...Manhattan's lower East Side, in a hired hall where such jazzmen as "Wild Bill" Davison and Max Kaminsky blow their horns, the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party assembled last week to tootle their stuck whistles. It was the party's 15th biennial convention. There were placards to set the theme. "Hail the Socialist Soviet Union, Guardian of World Peace," said one. "Seat Red China in the U.N." "Mail Birthday Greetings to Our Leader, William Z. Foster...