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...River in the Philadelphia suburb of Tacony, 2,000 penknives had been grinding-mementos-to-be for the company's employes. Ready for presentation to employees who had served the firm from 20 to 70 years apiece were 539 special service pins. It was to be a wonderful three-day holiday with games, entertainment, concerts, etc. for Disston workers, their families, friends, neighbors, and all the residents of Tacony. Abruptly, sorrowfully, last week, it was called...
...three-day University fencing tournament was concluded yesterday when Captain Al Labastie of the Varsity team won the sabre competition to add to his victory on Wednesday in the foil division. Tom Wright, who had already excelled in the tournament by winning the epee Thursday and coming in third in the foil on Wednesday, took second place in the contest...
Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded...
Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better...
...uncritical of his distinguished predecessor as the predecessor was of Spain is Historian Claude Gernade Bowers (Jefferson and Hamilton), another writing diplomat, who represented the U. S. in Spain from 1933 to 1939. One of the first public functions Ambassador Bowers attended was a three-day fiesta in Granada in honor of Irving. For his own diversion, Ambassador Bowers later followed the trail of Irving's Spanish travels, dug into embassy archives and the files of the Ministry of State to compose a sedately romantic record of a perennially romantic American...