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Last week Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood died in Baltimore of apoplexy. She was the only child of a great editor and her death will have its reverberations through the middle west, the reason is simple. Her father, William Rockhill Nelson, was nearly 40 when he went out to Kansas City from Fort Wayne, Ind., that was 1880. In his new home he founded the Kansas City Star. He made it not only one of the greatest but one of the most prosperous papers in the middle West. It not only dominated Kansas City but all the surrounding country...
Died. Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood, 43, daughter of the late William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, and wife of Irwin Kirkwood, editor of the Star; in Baltimore, of apoplexy...
...Reckless Lady. Belle Bennett and Lois Moran, who did so admirably in Stella Dallas, have another mother and daughter fable. Most of it is in Monte Carlo. Lowell Sherman, James Kirkwood and Ben Lyon are the males involved. Mother turns virtuous, daughter gets a good husband, and Lowell Sherman is consigned to a watery grave. It is a pretty dull film...
Playing over the famed North Course of the Los Angeles Country Club last week, Harry Cooper, new 21-year-old English professional of the Tenison Park Club (Dallas, Tex.), scored 279 (nine under par), led a field including Joe ("Trick Shot") Kirkwood, Al Espinosa, "Auld" John Black, and Amateurs George von Elm and Charles Chung (Hawaiian champion). Cooper collected the juiciest of typically Los Angelic prize-money...
...which was most to the taste of a nation in whose vocabulary this word is a favorite son. John Russell Pope was the architect. Secretary of State Kellogg, Will Hays, James R. Garfield, Lawrence Abbott, Elon H. Hooker, Arthur W. Page, Mark Sullivan, Charles D. Walcott, Irwin Kirkwood, Frederick C. Hicks, Hermann Hagedorn, were present at the meeting of the committee. The distinction was the choosing of Architect Pope's design for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial. The Association has appropriated $1,000,000 to build it. The design has yet to be approved by Congress...