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...daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell Moore. Mrs. Calvit claimed Mrs. Caruso had a $50,000 diamond & emerald ring of her mother's which the actress entrusted to her husband, the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain. New York State Supreme Court Justice McGeehan instructed Mrs. Caruso to show cause why she should not answer questions concerning the ring...
...sheriff-elect of Fairfield County, Conn, appointed Sportswriter William O'Connell McGeehan of the New York Herald Tribune to be an honorary deputy. To an interviewer from his own newspaper, Mr. McGeehan told how he had been a deputy before, when 13 convicts escaped 25 years ago from Folsom Prison in California and fled toward Nevada. Deputy McGeehan's posse started after them with bloodhounds and, after days and nights of travelling, passed close to a spot where three of the quarry were hiding. ''After the second day the country was so tough the bloodhounds gave...
...were all set for the annual renewal of what is probably their oldest and most cherished tradition. Yet it seems that even in this the English graduates and undergraduates remained calm and showed none of the rowdyism that often accompanies an American spectacle of the same kind. W. O. McGeehan, the special correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune now travelling in Europe, gives a few interesting sidelights on this aspect of the race. He says...
This lurid hypothesis was dismissed by District Attorney McGeehan of The Bronx with the remark: "I see no purpose to be served in summoning Terranova." Mr. Terranova himself, interviewed in his Spanish mansion, extensively decorated with stuffed birds, in Pelham Manor, N. Y., denied that he was at the dinner, stated that there is nothing unusual about his limousine...
...several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes, do not add much dignity and importance...