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...with his wife and their five-year-old daughter. The little girl's name was Josephine Amelia Claudius. After she grew up, she used to say that she was descended from one of the Claudian Emperors of Rome. This statement did not surprise Mrs. McGee and Mrs. McCormick, who lived near by, nor Milton Bruck at the stationery store, nor the people at the Lincoln Savings Bank on the corner. They knew Miss Claudius...
...this good work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...
...manage its team, Philadelphia dug up Harry Davis, onetime captain of the Philadelphia Athletics. Cincinnati got Bubbles Hargrave, National League batting champion in 1926. New York has Moose McCormick, old Giant pinch hitter, and Chicago has Brick Owens, longtime American League umpire. Most famed of the circuit's managers is St. Louis' peppery Gabby Street, the Old Sarge who won two pennants and a World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
Died. Amy Irwin McCormick, 59, artist, art patron and wife of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick (the Chicago Tribune), of pneumonia; in Chicago...