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...Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset...
Last weekend Captain Ludington won "Jock" Whitney's Greentree Tourney at Manhasset, L.L., for college players, although all other Crimson entrants, including Stanley Yassukovich and Dave Olyphant, did not go past the quarter-finals...
Since 1932 Hall has never lost an election. He served seven terms in the assembly, broken only by a three-year hitch as sheriff of Nassau County. As a freshman in politics he met James Dowsey, also a Nassau County Republican. At Dowsey's home in Manhasset, Hall met his host's daughter, Gladys, a pretty mother of two, who was separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome...
...last September Deepdale organized a "Calcutta"* competition. Amateur sportsmen not averse to gambling $1,000 or so on a friendly game of golf scrabbled for invitations. Among them was Richard L. Armstrong, a Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there...
Olivar still has Phil Mathias, an experienced 195-pound senior from Reading, Pa., at fullback, but may have to use junior varsity men to replace him. At quarterback are two top players, senior Bob Brink from Manhasset, N.Y., and sophomore Dean Loucks from White Plains, N.Y. Both men are good passers...