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...probable starting Freshman lineup is: Snook, g.; Darrell, r.f.; Wogan, l.f.; Weiss, r.h.; Gabler, c.h.; Hansen, l.h.; Houston, o.r.; Johnson, i.r.; Wolf, c.f.; Pierce, i.i.; Gordon...
Missing in Action. Thomas William Lamont II, 20, seaman first class, son of Thomas S. Lament, vice president and director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., grandson of famed Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan board chairman; on the overdue submarine Snook...
...years ago brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...
...beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention by getting married in a civil ceremony.) Last fortnight they arrived in Manhattan on their first visit to the U. S. Said Esmond Romilly last week: "We came here to get away from a terrible, deathlike atmosphere...
When they met again, hotheaded Homer Martin had obviously failed to be converted. Standing on his rights as U.A.W.'s elected president and cocking a rebellious snook at John L. Lewis himself, Mr. Martin summarily dismissed four of his vice presidents, including the Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer, and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes. He told six restive board members they would lay themselves "wide open to suspension" if they left the meeting. As one, the six walked out, leaving President Martin & friends in command of a union now publicly split...