Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Clendenin J. Ryan, 56, son of Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Capable executor of his father's $135,000,000 estate, of which he and Brother. John Barry got ample shares and Brother Allan a pair of shirt studs, he was active in finance until the last despite diabetes which reduced his six-foot-two frame from...
...Honorable Gerald David Lascelles, 15. Since 1936 these young men have edited and distributed to their subscribers (now 200 at 55. a year) an illustrated monthly called The Harewood News. Heretofore Harewood News has been read chiefly for its illuminating racing tips, supposedly written by the publishers' father, Lord Harewood. But last week Viscount Lascelles and the Honorable Gerald Lascelles made banner headlines in London's newspapers...
When cocky young Cinemactor Mickey Rooney left Los Angeles last fortnight for an eastern personal appearance tour, among the crowd that saw him off at the station was a wrinkle-faced, red-mopped little man who looked enough like Mickey Rooney to be his father. Soon the news got around that he was. Asked for his autograph, Comedian Joe Yule, at 44 the veteran of 36 years on the professional stage, smilingly consented. Said he: "It's the first time anybody ever asked...
Mickey Rooney's father gave him his start, aged three, in the Yule family vaudeville act, and the two played together in silent comedies when Mickey was billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...