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...first day out, Kremlin, pointer owned by Jacob France of Baltimore, found four coveys and three singles in a good heat, then dismayed his handler by pointing two rabbits. Two days later a young pointer named Dr. Blue Willing caused a sensation by getting lost for an hour and a half, after starting his heat with a brilliant find. For the first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner...
...settled for life. "If there is anything more glamorous than a Florida river I have yet to find it." Now (34), she has tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God (TIME, Feb. 27), is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Boston Perkinses, she was graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1902, went to Lake Forest, Ill. to teach. The writings of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives') and Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities) fired her ardor for reform, sent her to Hull House for six months. At Columbia later she did post-graduate work...
...squabble painful to U. S. Jewry developed over the proceeds ($15,000 net) of a charity banquet to be given in honor of shy, universal-minded Albert Einstein in Manhattan March 15 when it developed that Jacob Landau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had approached more than one organization before getting American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine to serve as sponsor for the feast. Said the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate (Jewish): "Mr. Landau . . . tied up Professor Einstein's appearance and then peddled his offers to various organizations on a commission basis." In the general clamor to find...
...principals in San Francisco's first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with...