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...Lindbergh kidnapping; of pneumonia; in The Bronx. After the trial, the retired schoolmaster sold his account of his experience for magazine serialization, advertised himself in Variety as "the most enigmatic, colorful, and widely publicized personality in America," planned a countrywide vaudeville tour, got only as far as Plainfield...
...Author. Van Wyck Brooks's literary career began with a trip to England when he was twelve. Born in Plainfield, NJ. in 1886, the son of a New York stockbroker, he read Ruskin in England, dreamed of himself writing a history of painting some day. He never wrote it, and his first published work, like that of many of his generation, appeared in St. Nicholas...
...students elected were: Gordon Allen, Concord; Elisha Atkins, Belmont; Jonas A. Barish, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Thomas W. Blazey, Euclid, O,; Eugene L. Bondy, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Jack E. Bronston. Plainfield, N. J.; Lindley J. Burton, Wayzaia, Minn.; John Cancian...
Died. John ("Jack") Burke, 67, famed marathon fighter of the '90s; of injuries apparently suffered in traffic; in Plainfield, N.J. Burke and Andy Bowen fought the longest glove battle on record, in New Orleans in 1893: no rounds. The two battered each other for seven hours and 19 minutes to a draw...
Harvard Club of New Jercy; Paul B. Coggins, Glen Ridge, N. j.; Richard L. . Ingraham, Packanack Lake, N. J.; Joseph C. Kiefe Jr., North Plainfield, N. J.; and John W. Pink Jr., Nutley...