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...coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground for a stadium where symphony concerts will be given through July and August. The cocktail guests, summer neighbors of Conductor Sokoloff, will be soloists at the Weston Concerts this summer. The 70 orchestramen who will...
Poet Edwin Markham ("The Man with the Hoe") ......... Litt.D. Ogden Livingston Mills ... LL.D. Dean Clarence Russell Skinner of Tufts College ....... D.D. Mrs. Owen D. Young, class of 1895 .....B.A. nunc pro tunc (now for then) George S. Van Schaick, New York State Superintendent of Insurance .... B.A. nunc pro tunc
...Bamberger, pro- ducer) is an inferior newspaper play in which the editor of The Daily Tab, disappointed when a woman bungles the job of shooting her racketeering husband in his city room, is pleased when her second attempt is successful. There is very little of the thunder of the Hoe press, even a theatrical Hoe press, about Man Bites Dog. Able Leo Donnelly, as the managing editor, finds himself in bad dramatic company...
...contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop of the journalistic hat to get big stories. And with the Examiner he tried his first crusading, to break the railroads' domination...
...cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company. Its annual deficits have been...