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...Exposed" by The Police Gazette (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) which appeared last fortnight. Few-even of those who remember the Gazette in every barber shop as the indispensable reference work on sports-were aware that the lurid sheet began in the role of vice-crusader. George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel...
...Died. Enoch W. ("Baggy") Bagshaw, Supervisor of Transportation for the State of Washington, onetime coach of University of Washington's championship footballers (led the Pacific Coast Conference in 1925); suddenly, of apoplexy, at Olympia, Wash. After last year's unsuccessful season, Washington alumni and undergraduates agreed to pay Bagshaw his contract salary for two years more if he would resign. He resigned. (Last week the Washington team trounced Montana...
HARVARD COLGATE Mays, 2b. s.s., Dashner McGrath, c.f. r.f., Bowler Nugent, s.s. 1b., Capt. Hagy Wood, 1b. c.f., Terry Ticknor, l.f. l.f., Cottrell Des Roches, 3b 2b., Bonacker Bassett, r.f. 3b., Callan Batchelder, c. c., Enoch Devens or MacHale, p. p., Daddona...
Last summer Judith, a one-act opera in English based on the apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première at London's Covent Garden (TIME, July 8). Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music...
...Lakin letters involved others, apparently, besides the President. He had engaged Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder, retired, onetime Ambassador to Cuba, as an assistant lobbyist. Wrote Lobbyist Lakin...