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...Reporter Kenneth George Bellairs returned from his vacation to the St. Louis police department, which he has covered, off & on, for one paper or another, since 1891. Son of a British Army captain who came to the U. S. to grow beans and ran the St. Louis zoo instead, Jock Bellairs went to work for the old St. Louis Globe in 1890, when he was 21. He left the Globe for the Chronicle, left the Chronicle for the Post-Dispatch, left the Post-Dispatch to return to the Star-Chronicle, which, as the Star-Times, now pays him his salary...
These stories Jock Bellairs denies with a twinkle in his eye. His more sober exploits he will admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser...
Last week Lang Williams and "Jock" Whitney decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...
...Said Jock Whitney, in announcing his appointment: "The future of .the country ... is closely bound up with the contributions of corporate business to the job of making democracy work. . . . We feel we are adding ... a man who . . . has a practical understanding of present trends...
...other Victorian fashions. Among U. S. croquet players: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Socialite Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose Port Washington estate is the scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game...