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Died. James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through...
...forfeited if for any reason the horse named by the bettor fails to run) on the Kentucky Derby. Tom Shaw had such a busy summer at the New York tracks in 1934 that he took a holiday last winter, handed over his winter book to his longtime assistant Frank Shannon. A few weeks before the race, an attack of indigestion that sent Tom Kearney to the hospital was front-page news in St. Louis. Last week at the first Kentucky Derby he had missed for 30 years, he was represented by an employe, John Ticacy...
Winged Patriotism. Benevolent and Protective is the Order of the Elks-but not towards Communism. Last week, Michael F. Shannon of Los Angeles, newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order, winged into the air from Chicago. Clyde Pangborn and Col. Roscoe Turner were his pilots. Next day he was in Boston, the following day in Atlantic City where he conferred with other benevolent antlered friends. Such was only the beginning of a 10,000-mile air tour that will take him to Asheville, Dallas, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...time has come" cried Grand Exalted Shannon, "when the issue is between the Stars and Stripes and the Red flag." To the 500,000 Elks in 1,400 cities he was carrying orders...
Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood...