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Died. Charles MacVeagh, 71, onetime (1925-29) U.S. Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1901-25) general solicitor and assistant general counsel to U.S. Steel Corp., father of Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh; after long illness; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Delacorte attended Harvard, married in his sophomore year, failed to make a place on the Lampoon staff, made $2,000 by gathering signatures at 10 cents each on petitions for the Presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson. He was graduated from Columbia in 1913, worked as a free lance advertising solicitor, made money in the War by soliciting advertising for all of the military camp papers in the East. Afterward he organized an agency to handle circulation for Current Opinion, Le Bon Ton, Popular Radio. Ten years ago, with the late crippled Author William Andrew Johnston (Limpy), longtime editor...
Youngster Sir Stafford Cripps, who was Solicitor General in the last Labor Government, was called last week "the only Laborite with first-class brains elected...
...Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made him attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director of the I. C. C.'s finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated in 1905, he was a stout footballer. A Rhodes scholarship...
...capacity as interfering person and amateur solicitor Shaw wrote Ellen Terry reams of good advice, never tired of trying to persuade her to forsake Shakespeare and Henry Irving (who, Shaw thought, was wasting her talents) and cast in her lot with a really good playwright, one George Bernard Shaw. But she stuck to Irving about as long as he needed her. Shaw admired her loyalty, never ceased to upbraid her wrongheadedness. Loud in his Brobdingnagian denunciations of Henry Irving, Shaw did not resent the fact that Ellen Terry had "many enduring friendships, some transient fancies, and five domestic partnerships...