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...Specialty Act Accordian numbers by Edward Yeomans Jr. '33 Banjo Club Sing You Sinners from "Honey" Football Medley Speciality Singing trio--J. L. Hutter Jr. '33. H. R. Herrmann '33, and John Heard Jr. '33 Vocal Club Battle of Jericho arr. by Bartholomew Talk about Jerusalem arr. by O'Hara Harvard Songs Specialty Act Magician--James DeRoode '33 Gold Coast Orchestra...
...Felton had a career of 62 years of railroad operation behind him when he died last month. Successor Joyce, mild-mannered, is a self-made man from a hard school: Chicago's "back-of-the-yards" district. His hobby is breeding horses, and he has entered his Dick O'Hara in both the Kentucky and the American Derbies this year. In announcing that his group had gained control, Mr. Joyce spiked, or attempted to spike, all merger rumors by stating that he was interested in the Great Western purely as an investment. But there are persistent whispers of "Van Sweringens...
...events in this book are true. . . . Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast...
...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...
...author of the smut-cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...