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...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
...months after he set to work at $25 a week in the Manhattan office of International Mercantile Marine Co. (TIME, April 1) John Jacob Astor III quit his job, was reported displeased with the shipping business as a career...
...count, keep the title which he won eight years ago from Cuba's José R. Capablanca. Soon maneuvered out of position by Euwe, who attacked vigorously after a queen's gambit, Alekhine accepted his offer of a draw after 35 moves, rose from directly under Jacob Lyon's great canvas of The Riflemen of Capt. Jacob Pieterson Hooghkamer and Lieutenant Pieter van Rijn in the Military Casino (see cut), warmly congratulated his youthful successor. To the amateur winner went the championship, 15½-to-14½, and expense money; to Professional Alekhine, $6,800 plus...
...Roosevelt. Only one member of the present Board, Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles, has been publicly assured by the President of reappointment. Under the new setup he will change his title to "chairman." Two members of the Board, besides Mr. Eccles, have been added to it by President Roosevelt: John Jacob Thomas, 66, Nebraska farmer-lawyer and Democratic politician; Menc S. Szymczak (pronounced Sim-chak), 41, who was Comptroller of Chicago under the late Mayor Anton Cermak. If either of them has White House assurances of reappointment, he is keeping the fact strictly to himself...
...were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela in Carmen gave the season's most inept performance. In Carmen...