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...this season, is a former Mercersburg Academy player. Fielding well all year and being one of the leading batters, he has been a mainstay of the team. St. John's Game Today HARVARD ST. JOHN'S Macintosh, l.f. 3b., Sheeran Burbank, r.f. c.f., Siepietowski Owen, 2b. r.f., Mannix Bilodeau, 1b. l.f., Walsh Regan, 3b. 2b., Cummings McTernen, c.f. 1b., Tansey Carr, s.s. s.s., Palombo Blackwood, c. c., Barry Avon, p. p., Nicketakis...
Last week while Thalberg was en route to Europe with Mrs. Thalberg (Norma Shearer) to recuperate, MGM's directors announced that Associate Producers Edward J. Mannix and David Oliver Selznick had been elected vice presidents. Irish Eddie Mannix has been an MGM executive since 1924. David Oliver Selznick, son of the late famed Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer...
...lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where," he demanded as he wobbled home from the Naval Hospital, "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff...
...steel plates . . . with terrific force. . . . Although the shock nearly dragged him [Redmond] overboard, he was pulled back by two of his companions." (Seaman J. W. Walker caught a stout lady, had no quickwitted companions, perished). Bruised and scorched though she was, Mrs. Dayton joined Ship's Nurse Dorothy Mannix in treating the wounded, many of whom died in her arms from lung burns or ghastly body burns. Vice President McNeil said to Mrs. Dayton: "You are the heroine of this disaster. We will never forget what you have done. You will hear from us later...
...controversies with the Supreme Court which reached their climax in the Wemme will case. E. Henry Wemme, rich Portland tentmaker, had had his friend, Mr. Joseph, draw him up an ironbound will bequeathing half his estate to the Christian Science Church and half to heirs in Germany. Thomas Mannix appeared as counsel for those who sought to break the will. When the case came before the Oregon Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph charged that Chief Justice Rand had had a mining deal with Mr. Mannix and was thus disqualified to hear the suit. Then he accused Mr. Mannix of plying Justice...