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Alfred E. Smith accepted chairmanship of a board of directors which included Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. & Allan A, Ryan Jr. (cousin and brother of Fortune Peter Ryan), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Howard G. Gushing, Major Talbot O. Freeman, A. Newbold Morris, Walter S. Mack Jr. and other socialite young businessmen. They formed Federal Broadcasting Corp. to operate station WMCA in New York City, hoped to form a chain of eleven stations extending as far west as St. Louis. President of the company is John T. Adams, former associate of Donald Flamm, owner of the station. Object : to make a good...
Rebuilt since the time when, playing a dogleg par four, Jock Hutchinson and big Bob MacDonald each got 2s, the other members of their foursome, 3s. Blue Mound is still only 6,270 yd. long, shorter than most championship links. In the qualifying rounds, an obscure Timber Point (L. I.) professional named Jimmy Hines, and Mortie Dutra, hulking brother of the hulking defending champion, tied for the medal with 138. Par 70 was broken or tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost...
...delegation, correspondents estimated the total conference cost last week at more than $5,000,000. Despite record London heat this summer the 2,000 delegates, experts and secretaries drank far less at the Conference's Long Bar than the optimistic concessionaires had expected. Chief Bartender "Jock" mournfully reported last week that they drank only 12,000 lager beers, only 3,000 gin fizzes, those being the most popular refreshers...
...young men who like horses better than hogs were especially pleased by Three Little Pigs. The process that made the porkers pink was Technicolor and the two pleased young men were the cousins John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who last week announced that they had bought a substantial share of Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. They also announced they were forming a production company. Pioneer Pictures, with Cousin Jock for president, to make feature-length colored films...
Sued. Elizabeth Dobson Altemus Eastman, Philadelphia socialite, mother-in-law of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; and her son James Dobson Altemus; by one Estelle F. Maxwell, 28; for $100,000 for preventing Miss Maxwell's marriage to Lemuel C. Altemus. whom Mrs. Eastman divorced in 1911; in Philadelphia...