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...Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse...
...when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager and drummer, and Crooner Al Bowlly, a swarthy South African who began his career...
...pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen...
William Seley Crosbie '38, of Exeter, New Hampshire, has been elected manager of the Freshman baseball team for this year and Douglas Malcomson Bowen '38, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, has been chosen assistant manager, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. Wiley Edward Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Iowa, was appointed manager of the Second Freshman and House teams...
...tying the meet record made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...