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...Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...
...taken of the proceedings. It was regarded as uninteresting, futile, vulgar. On the tenth day the New York Evening Graphic published "doctored" photographs of contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving donations from the audience...
...throng had been caught unready, unorganized, out of its seats. The growing noise lacked spontaneity. It was a rumble, then a roar. It in no way resembled an explosion. But Nominator Me Nab saw that everything was going to be all right so he left the lectern completely and walked back to stand and watch amongst the seated members of the National Committee...
...Theresa Rummel, 82, sat in a front pew and wept while her son, the Right Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, was consecrated Bishop of Omaha, Neb. Besides Mrs. Rummel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, held a throng of church dignitaries - Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, three Archbishops, eleven Bishops, 49 Monsignori and not many less than 1,000 priests...
Last Friday saw such a throng gathered in discontented attitude outside the Locker Building gate, for track had usurped the Stadium, to the exclusion of all else from the whole expanse of Soldiers Field, Likewise, on the morning of Memorial Day, the gates were closed with triple steel, and those who had ventured onto the Business School courts shortly beat a forced retreat. Each Sunday, too, the inevitable congestion of the University's tennis resources is increased appreciably by limiting to a few hours the time...