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...Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran and was Mack's "feeder" in half a dozen Broadway shows and in the famed "Two Black Crows." Died. Paul Kochanski, 46, violinist; of abdominal disorders; in Manhattan. Born...
...wife because one of her friends (Ilka Chase) has seduced him. When John Loving starts to tell the story of his projected novel to Elsa Loving and his uncle, Father Baird (Robert Loraine), his lower nature proposes a bitter conclusion, in which the hero's wife dies of pneumonia. Elsa Loving, quick at deductions, goes for a walk in the rain but when she catches pneumonia she does not die. Playwright O'Neill calls Days Without End a "modern miracle play." The last act shows John Loving and his second self praying beneath a crucifix. That John Loving...
Died. Jeanette Klein Lauchheimer, 99, one of the twin sisters believed to be oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
...thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard by Marble Arch, Their Majesties inspected London's new est luxury hotel, The Cumberland, which opened last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre...
...world's largest maker of chlorine), which quietly filed a registration statement in Washington for $7,000,000 of new common stock to finance a new plant in Louisiana. Said the New York Evening Post last week: "If one large and reputable corporation takes the plunge without catching pneumonia, why can't others do the same...