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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...
...gang at the front gate-which included a student railroad ticket salesman from Wabash College, the opera salesmen and two students from Northwestern University who took the opera tickets at the gate-was talking things over when a small Italian boy came running up to us almost out of breath. He was so excited that for a minute he could say nothing, but after a rest he told us what had happened...
...Therefore as the President fished from his modest yacht in the Bahamas last week he had with him only his military and naval aides, his physician and two relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight ago, is the honorary (payless) chairmanship of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank...
...serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder. She and her husband, last married couple in the race, withdrew. Only family team left was 39-year-old Mrs. Josephine Bogash, wife of a Wabash R. R. fireman, teamed with her 19-year-old son Bill...
...express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more over the NBC radio network. One railroad president and two vice presidents judged the contestants on "pronunciation, articulation, inflection and diction...