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...older brothers went off to fight for the North. Tyler had itched to enlist, but on the Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender Tyler was furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when...
...everyone knows, there are really five Marx brothers. They are descended from a Hanoverian magician and ventriloquist named Lafe Schoenberg, who toured Germany for 50 years, carrying his scenery, tricks, wife & three children in a roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name...
...Kany G. '21, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of California, will go to the libraries of Madrid to study the unedited works of Ramon de la Crus and other material in the preparation of a book to be entitled "Lafe in Madrid during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century...
...London, 5,000 ,German Communists shouted "Hail Moscow!" as it passed through Berlin. Died. Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, 61, editor, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal; at his desk in Memphis; of apoplexy. Thoroughly-trained journalist, bedrock Jacksonian Democrat, re ligious fundamentalist, his loss to the South parallels that of "Lafe" Young (TIME, Nov. 29) to Iowa...
...last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room--she having visited Devereaux for the purpose of protecting her daughter. Regan arranges everything to look like suicide, leaves the room and locks the door on the outside, thereby imprisoning his wife. Here appears the "Sign on the door"; he fastens...