Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Winifred Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller of Greenwich, Conn., grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller; to Brooks Emeny, Yale instructor of government & international relations; in Manhattan...
Appointed. Frank Gillmore, actor, father of Actress Margalo Gillmore; to be President of the Actors' Equity Association, succeeding John Emerson, playwright, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...
...Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
MIDSUMMER NIGHT, And Other Tales, in Verse-John Masefield-Macmillan...