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Louis Armstrong, maestro of jazz, would be a good subject for one of his own songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year...
Separated. George Gaylord Simpson, of the American Museum of Natural History's field staff, onetime Yale professor; and Mrs. Lydia P. Simpson. Her charge: He carried on correspondences with young women in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., he had met on fossil hunts. Countercharge: She made scenes in the Museum of Natural History...
Died. John Barnes Miller, 62, founder and board chairman of Southern California Edison Co. Ltd.; of blood-poisoning following influenza; in Los Angeles. A onetime planter, law student, steamboat operator, he became an employe of a small Los Angeles lighting company at 27, within five years merged 40 local utilities to form Southern California Edison. Under his direction it grew to have assets of $375,000,000 in 1930, 110,000 stockholders...
...pictures of Atlantic liners, Nantucket whalers, Mississippi steamboats, British, French, Dutch ships of the line-but he also specializes. Pride of his portfolios is a special collection of every steamboat that ever plied the Long Island Sound. He has a model of the Isaac Newton, first steamer on the Hudson to have three tiers of staterooms. He has not one but several lithographs of the Atlantic, first Sound steamer to use illuminating gas. One thing he lacked: a picture of the Glen Cove, first Sound steamer to be equipped with a steam calliope for the entertainment of the passengers...
...spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side by side...