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...attending the dance include: Professor and Mrs. R. J. Baker, Professor and Mrs. E. M. Dodd, Professor and Mrs. Sheldon Glueck, Professor and Mrs. Livingston Hall, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Holiday, Professor and Mrs. M. O. Hudson, Professor and Mrs. J. M. Landis, Professor and Mrs. W. N. Leach, Professor and Mrs. Calvert Magruder, Professor and Mrs. W. A. Seavey, Professor and Mrs. S. P. Simpson, Professor and Mrs. J. B. Thayer, Professor and Mrs. E. S. Thurston, Professor and Mrs. S. B. Warner, and Professor Samuel Williston...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...
...West indulged in huge security operations, chiefly attempts to support its own stock. It made large gifts to subsidiaries to enable them to "write down" losses, also loaned them funds for stock deals. Unusual for a utility, it had bank investments in Peoples Trust & Savings (being liquidated), A. B. Leach & Co. (being liquidated) and Hill, Joiner & Co. It also had an investment in Chicago Opera Shops Building, storehouse for the Opera's stage sets and costumes. Among its receivables are $300,000 in notes secured by South Bend real estate and signed by George M. Studebaker and Clement Studebaker...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, William Leach suddenly left his armchair to get a book. Just then a bolt of lightning came down the chimney, destroyed the chair...
...lips in amused disapproval, nursed a fat brief case between his knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...