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Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
...picture above, Mrs. Lois Paul of Cambridge is relating the Chanukah legend to her interested charges. PBH superintendent, "Jock" Cockburn will play Santa for the children Friday...
...barouche horse, Splendor, George V sent around his great Shire stallion, Field Marshal V, and the young gentleman's career was assured. Later, in the U.S., he met and molded for bronze the late Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad, but I must confess he had nice manners"), stablefuls more. His next job: an equestrian statue for the grave of Field Marshal Sir John Dill in Arlington Cemetery...
...orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...also began with an impressive list of editors, a worthy mission and a rich uncle. U.N. World originally had the backing of three rich men's sons, Nelson Rockefeller, Jock Whitney and Michael Straight-but Rockefeller and Whitney backed out. The money now comes out of the gold-lined pockets of the ElmhirstStraight family, which has patiently paid the New Republic's deficits throughout its 32-year existence. (Rich young Michael Straight is also currently shooting the works to see that the New Republic's new Editor Henry Wallace* gets all that money can buy.) Unlike...