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When Jay Gould precipitated the famed "Black Friday" of 1869, Helen Gould was a small tot of a year and a half. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still...
More than 1,500 persons stood in line to see Marion Roberts (Strasmick), chorus girl consort of the late Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in a song-&-dance act at the Academy of Music, cheap movie & vaudeville theatre on Manhattan's lower East Side. The gangster's widow, plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, announced that she, too, would appear in vaudeville, in a playlet designed to '"vindicate" her husband. Said she: ''He wouldn't have known how to be a gangster...
...General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle...
Battling against this first report, plump German Delegate Dr. Carl Melchior was backed by "The Three Little Neutrals": Switzerland's Dr. Brindschedla, Holland's Mynheer Colijin, Sweden's Herr Rydbeck. They deadlocked the Committee which found itself obliged to draft and lay before the world a second and quite different report with these conclusions...
Ukulele in hand, plump May Singhi Breen went last week to the Manhattan local of the American Federation of Musicians to try to get a union card (fee: $50). Three weeks ago, flouting the ukulele as a lowly instrument, the Federation refused her entry (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week it admitted that the ukulele is a musical instrument. But the Federation does not wish to be swamped by applications from ukulelists. May Breen might come in as a pianist or not at all. She departed vowing to carry the ukulele's cause to the National Board, highest body...