Word: towsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty years ago a baseball team made up of employes from Marshall Field's, No.1 Chicago department store, wound up its season with a deficit. Great was the stew among Marshall Fielders until William Burnell Towsley came forth with a suggestion. Mr. Towsley liked to exercise his resounding bass voice. He knew other Marshall Field employes who sang, suggested a Marshall Field Choral Society which might give a concert, raise funds to clear another baseball season. The Marshall Field baseball team has long been forgotten. The Marshall Field & Company Choral Society gave its 30th annual concert last week...
Marshall Field shoppers recognized William Burnell Towsley as the genial first-floor manager of the Wabash building where he directs customers to leather goods, stationery and jewelry. Founder Towsley is one of the Choral Society's seven charter members. With him from the start have been four other bassos: Charles Hanneman,a salesman in the "Store for Men" Edward Katschke in the candy stock room; Monroe A. Munson, retired this year from the rug department ; Howard E. Snyder, too old now for the shipping room. Two charter sopranos have kept pace with the oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still...
...fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities of a pair of moppets and a Cairn bitch named Sally, all of whom posed for Photographer Lena Towsley. Before publication, a number of women scanned the volume, discovered a photograph which they disapproved. It showed Peggy & Peter (see cut) saying their prayers. The ladies objected. Puzzled but agreeable, Publishers Farrar & Rinehart deleted the photograph from the published volume...