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Investigations revealed that Miss Morgan is, by no means, penniless and that her brother is, by no means, an unwise investor. The answer is that Miss Morgan probably gave the money she received from Old Gold to charity. Citizens did indeed think of that, but were still mystified. If Miss Morgan had been hard-pressed for another $1,000 for her pet charity, would not Banker Morgan, impeccable, gladly have accommodated her? There was only one other explanation: Miss Morgan was upsetting Morgan tradition by positively getting to like publicity...
...great Paderewski is called Paderooski, or Paderefski, with Ignaz or Ignace for a first name and Jan or Jean for a second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils...
...those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have been Those...
...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
...Weed is also decidedly alive; by no means penniless. They have a home at Syracuse, another at Southport, Conn.; frequently stop at the Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport. Their son, Robert F. Weed, married Martha Lashar, daughter of Walter B. Lashar, president of the American Chain Co., and cousin of famed Thomas Lashar, onetime (1916) Yale coxswain...