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...signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain for the Africans, taking care not to let them think that magic had anything to do with...
...Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust official, and E. Thurston Clarke, head of the investment department of J. P. Morgan & Co. These two men were brought in to relieve Mr. Young of some of his responsibilities. When Mr. Young finally moved out, Mr. Clarke was popped into the firm's presidency. One of the ideas Mr. Young was playing with when...
Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
Absent from his dinner last week was Harry Thurston Peck, who had retreated in disgrace to Stamford, Conn., where he unsuccessfully tried to make a living as a free lance, lost his mind, shot himself...