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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albert M. ("Lucky") Snook, Vandyke-bearded publisher of the Aurora, Ill., Beacon-Journal, smiled when stupid photographers asked him to spell his name over again. He had distinguished himself at the Associated Press convention in 1924 by emitting a strange & enthusiastic cry on the appearance of President Calvin Coolidge. His wife, at home in Aurora, heard the cry over the radio, said: "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." Mr. Snook achieved the epithet of "Lucky" when he won The Chess Game, a painting by John Singer...
Laymen. Publishers also heard fine words from the mouths of Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...
Satisfied with their doings, the editors adjourned after electing Walter M. Harrison, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City, to the presidency of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller, 88, a second-great granddaughter; first grandchild of Rockefeller Jr. The child's mother is Mrs. David M. Milton (Abby Rockefeller) of Manhattan...
Died. Frank Lockhart, 26, U. S. automobile racing champion; in an accident, while trying to establish a new record; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Last August he made a track record of 135.5 m. p. h. and in October set eight broad track noncompetitive speed records...