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...fields as guests of President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
Matt Brush likes to give parties, with stunts. He collects elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
...admits that he plays polo constantly, rides to hounds, steeplechases or drives a racing motorboat, is lucky to get a policy at all. Three years ago it occurred to smart Peter Vischer, editor of Polo, that insurance specially intended for sportsmen would be popular. Three of his friends-Charles Miner of the Litchfield County Hunt, Reginald C. M. Peirce, who played polo for Squadron A in Manhattan, and Capt. Carl B. Searing, retired, of the Army-organized Sportsmans Mutual Assurance Co. to write such policies. Licensed Jan. 3, with 400 policy holders, $600,000 in policies and a reinsurance contract...
...private practice," Miner said, "many nervous conditions have responded favorably to the removal of dental disease. Not long ago a young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...