Word: selig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...
...rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains...
...Elvin E. Overton, Dean of Mercer University Law School, Macon, G.; Jacobus ten-Broek, of Berkeley, Calif., LL.B. '38, University of California; Ernst H. Schopflocher, of Madison, Wis., J.U.D. '20, Erlangen-Bavaria, LL.B. '40, University of Wisconsin; Joseph Gold, of London, England, LL.B. '35, LL.M. '36, University of London; Selig J. Seligman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; Lewis B. Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George H. Schuller, New Haven...