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...this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later, he had deserted his wife and three sons to devote his time to serving the dynamic Blavatsky...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...Shirley, onetime Army major, formed a "sales engineering" firm with two onetime Navy civilian employes named F. B. Olcott and F. C. Nichols. They engineered war contracts for 46 munitions makers, made $106,196 apiece last year, have piled up $208,211 profits (apiece) this year...
...rewrite woman, two girl clerks to handle fan mail, two secretaries to whom she dictates at the top of her lungs, from such characteristic jottings as: "Catalina and sleep . . . Stinkey Pinky . . . Test Pilot ... he has to have three steps to get on the love . . . Marie Antoinette . . . Mrs. Chauncey Olcott. . . ." Eighth member of Hedda's staff is a "brain" named Dema Harshbarger...
...Olcott Gates '41 smashed all previous records made by the Elephants when he spent four days in bed following examinations with no signs of any sickness...