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...kin. no employe of President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward...
...waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended critics outdid one another in hailing...
Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...
...confused with white-whiskered old Charles Evans Hughes (no kin), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
Died. James J. Campbell. 62, Pittsburgh steelman; at Pasadena, Calif. His first job: painting cannon balls in front of the Washington arsenal. His last: vice president of Carnegie Steel Co. He was no kin of President James A. Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...