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Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...
...Cord . . . and his associated interests now have effective control. . . . Under these circumstances Messrs. La Motte T. Cohû, George R. Hann, W. A. Harriman, Charles L. Lawrance, Robert Lehman, Lindley C. Morton and Matthew S. Sloan and myself believe it would serve no useful purpose for us to continue as directors of the corporation, and I am accordingly resigning as president...
Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress...
...whys & wherefores of election results. Ambassador Edge called to say good-by before starting back to France. Another caller was John Work Garrett, bearded, limping Ambassador to Italy. Dr. Don Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials to present as the new Minister from Panama. A Hoover handshake was all Charles Hann Jr., U. S. vice president of the Federation of Interallied Veterans, wanted. The President also found time to step out on the South Grounds and receive the first platinum medal ever struck off by the Philadelphia mint-as honorary chairman of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission...
Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, beauteous relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years...