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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Cox Brady, 45, able financier, lavish host, important Catholic; in Manhattan, after five days' illness, of pneumonia. His father, Anthony N. Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
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Last week there was an election. Charles Gimbel wanted to retire. The apposite successor to his post of chairman was his brother Isaac. For new president there might be anyone of a score grandsons. The family chose the oldest of them, potent Bernard F., active socially and prominent in sports. Richard Gimbel must remain as secretary. He said that he could also carry the duties of treasurer, and the family put him in both positions...
...best prospects for the indoor team, according to Major Wogan, are: J. P. Mandell '29 or R. B. Burnett ocC., No. 1; J. P. Cotton Jr. '29 or W. H. White '29, No. 2; and F. A. Clark '29, back. All of these men, with the exception of Clark, have been playing on the University squad during the outdoor season just concluded...