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Fourth Game, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the 65-year-old bon vivant who owns the Yankees, cannot bear his team to lose, cannot bear to watch a close game, let alone a close World Series. Even to win in four straight games is too close for him until the fourth game is won. He begged his men to win last Sunday and end his terrible suspense. The Yankees obliged with all the trimmings...
...Gilbert Simmons Jr., once an executive in the company. In 1929 he resigned from all positions except as a member of the finance committee (formed that year, abolished the next), and last year he retired completely. Extremely hard of hearing, he is as ruddy as his brother, a jolly vivant, an expert shot. The following tale has been told. Early in 1930 when John Pope, brilliant young member of the Stock Exchange, made an exhaustive study of Simmons Co. and found its immediate prospects none too good, and when heavy sales poured into the stock, President Simmons decided to support...
...less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor, she jumps into the most valuable body of water in the dramatists' atlas, the Seine. From this point on, Melo flags and falters. There is a tableau vivant around the dead woman's grave, followed by a long-winded scene at the violinist's home where the husband tries to get Mr. Rathbone to admit his philandering. Melo ends on an unclear and noncommittal note, possibly because plump, engaging Actress Best is killed off one act too soon...
Outside Congress, "Nick" Longworth was the gay, garrulous bon vivant whom Washington officialdom knew and loved best. About him in his Massachusetts Avenue home his friends constantly gathered informally. A thorough musician (he had a standing order for new compositions from the Library of Congress), he would play on the violin, the organ or the piano. Then he would sing old college ballads, sentimental ditties or long songs for men only. His favorite stories were Elizabethan. He maintained active membership in the Royal & Joyous Fellowship of Elbow-benders. He doted on doggerel. Example...
Sisley Huddleton, suave cosmopolite, journalist, bon vivant, author (In and About Paris; Louis XIV in Love and War; Europe in Zigzag) radioed to the Christian Science Monitor: A MORE DREARY SET OF NEWSPAPER MEN THAN IS NOW TO BE MET IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL IT HAS NEVER BEEN MY LOT TO ENCOUNTER...