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...called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled nine coveys perfectly in his three hours, to four coveys for his pointer bracemate, Shore's Carolina Jack. Another fine race was run by Jacob France's big pointer Kremlin who, under adverse conditions, found eight coveys and several singles and finished fast and fresh. But the best brace of all, and one of the greatest runs in championship history, came on the final day; Oilman Walter C. Teagle's Norias Annie...
When his engagement with Socialite Eileen Gillespie was broken, young John Jacob Astor III chose the abandoned wedding-day to start a world-junket with three former schoolmates. By last week he had arrived in Shanghai, where he spent most of his time staring moodily out of the window in his room. Badgered by reporters young Astor blurted out that he was "trying to forget," added: "I don't like to discuss it. What more can I say?" Left alone, he turned again to the window...
...When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
Died. William Astor Chanler, 66. socialite, expeditionist, politician, author, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Armstrong Chaloner and the late Artist Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; in Mentone, France. A waterfall in British East Africa, some varieties of reptiles, insects and an antelope species bear his name...
...Jacob Aloff '34; as of the Class of 1933, William B. Bacon, Keith Famuleney, Walter S. Fox, Jr., George Fremd, Jr., Thomas H. Jameson, Ellis Jandron, Charles P. Lewis, Edward E. Mitchell, Valerio R. Montanari, James D. Reiher, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Spencer; as of the Class of 1932, George de F. Bissell, Jr., Spartaco V. Monello, David V. Smith; as of the Class of 1931, Paul A. Fullam, Frederick W. Thon; as of the Class of 1924, Daniel S. Holder; as of the Class of 1918, Hugh M. Hite...