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...John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore; in the same year both came to the U. S. to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera Association, left in 1922 after a clash with Mary Garden. Since then they have both lived in Paris where Mrs. Muratore maintains a beauty parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

John Armstrong Chaloner, ne Chanler, modern Maecenas, coiner of the famed phrase "Who's looney now?"* has figured more or less steadily in the public press for the past six years. Adjudged insane some 20 years ago, he spent some time in enforced residence at Bloomingdale Asylum (New York State), whence he escaped finally to Virginia, his home. A piquant touch was added by the fact that while he was legally sane in the State of Virginia, he was legally insane in the State of New York, where, undaunted, he was carrying on libel suits against various Manhattan newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confession | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...Dean '19, J. O. Herrick '19, C. W. Holmes '16, R. H. Kenyon '18, S. Kirshen '19, P. D. Koontz uL., R. K. Leavitt '17, G. H. Lee '16, D. Leighton '19, J. A. Lewis 1L., R. D. Longyear '18, J. M. Looney '17, D. Loring, Jr. '16, D. G. Lovell '17, F. B. McConaughty '19, L. Macfarland '19, K. L. Maclachlan '18, W. W. McLeod '19, J. C. McMullin '17, H. F. Mann '16, W. J. Margreve '19, G. W. Mayo '19, K. Merrick '19, J. W. J. Middendorf '16, H. Morgan '17, T. W. Morris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regimental Announcements | 1/17/1916 | See Source »

...Dean '19, J. O. Herrick '19, S. Kirshen '19, P. D. Koontz uC., R. K. Leavitt '17, G. H. Lee '16, G. D. Leighton '19, J. A. Lewis 1L., R. Littell '18, G. M. Looney '17, R. D. Longyear '18, D. Loring, Jr. '18, D. G. Lovell '17, F. B. McConaughy '19, L. Macfarland '18, K. L. Maclachan '18, W. W. McLeod '19, J. C. McMullin '17, W. J. Margreve '19, G. W. Mayo '19, K. Merrick '19, H. Morgan '17, T. W. Morris 1L., C. A. Morss '19, E. P. Motley '19, A. C. Norton 1G., H. Ober...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN STUDENTS ARE ENLISTED AS PRIVATES IN EIGHT COMPANIES | 1/8/1916 | See Source »

...continued today at 9.15. o'clock according to the following schedule: Examinations Today. Anthropology 1: Ashford to Eaton (inclusive), Emerson D Emmons to Wooldredge (inclusive), Emerson J Astronomy 7, Astron. Lab. Chemistry 8: Adolph to J. Cohen (inclusive), Sever A M. A. Cohen to Lincoln (inclusive), Sever 23 Looney to Winsor (inclusive), Sever 24 Chemistry 17 Sever 29 Classical Philol. 49 Sever 18 Economics 5 Sever 11 Economics 7: Ach to Lehmayer (inclusive), Sever 5 Levine to Wright (inclusive), Sever 6 Economics 13 Sever 30 Economics 15, Harvard 5 Education 8 Emerson D Engin. Sciences 16 Pierce 304 Engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINALS BEGIN FORTNIGHT STAY | 6/7/1915 | See Source »

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