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...second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music...
...year to hunt at Melton Mowbray. His older brothers are Albert C. Bost wick, whose racehorse Mate won the Preakness last year, and Dunbar Bost wick, who played on the Yale polo team which last week beat Harvard 13-to-9 for the intercollegiate champion ship. No self-educated sportsman like Eddie Eagan (see col. 3), Jockey Bost wick inherited a fortune before he left St. Paul's school, then decided not to go to college. Said he : "There is no use sitting in school when one can sit on a horse and go somewhere." When Jockey Bostwick began...
...later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...
Managing Editor The Sportsman Boston, Mass...
...individual sportsman flyer were to insure himself for $5,000, his ship for $3,000 (against fire, theft, etc.). and take average coverage for public liability, passenger liability and property damage, his yearly premiums would total upward of $460. Were he to add crash insurance the figure would soar to $910-considerably more than a whole year's depreciation of his plane. Also, he would be hampered by numerous flight restrictions. Not long ago rates were even higher. Prime reason was lack of data on amateurs' accidents, forcing the conclusion that all private flyers were bad risks. Last...