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...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...
...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...
Still anxious lest they offend their Dry enemies, the New York brewers, through Col. Jacob Ruppert, had announced that the new brew would not be delivered until 6 a. m. on historic April 7 so that there would be no "carnival of untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks...
Chicago, heedless to Col. Ruppert's national plea, got its beer cold and at the zero hour. While sirens, pistols and cowbells sounded, State Street establishments dispensed to rows four deep. Louis Schneider, winner of the Indianapolis Memorial Day auto race in 1931, piloted a beer truck bound out of town. The Illinois Legislature having failed to agree on a beer dispensary bill, Acting Mayor Frank Corr announced that no city licenses would be levied, that Chicago would be on "beer probation...
Despite last week's mishaps experts generally concurred in Col. Ruppert's estimate of his team. Manager McCarthy's most promising rookie is a shortstop named William Werber for what has been the Yankees' weakest spot since 1927. Charles Devens, onetime Harvard footballer, has surprised everyone by pitching so well that McCarthy may not send him to Newark for further schooling...