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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laredo, Tex., one Paul Max Neuhaus set out to win a $500 bet by knocking a golf ball to Rouses Point, N. Y. (3,000 mi.) in 160 days...
Died, Jay Gould, 45, grandson of Railman Jay Gould, winner of U. S. court tennis championships from 1906 to 1926, 19 times doubles champion (with W. C. Wright, W. H. Tevis Huhn, Joseph Walker Wear); of a throat ailment; in Margaretville, N. Y...
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds...
...That's truer than Gospel," said the onetime National City Bank chairman last week. "Like every one else, I presume, I have cut down on club memberships very markedly.'' Lately he has been living at his mansion in Tuxedo, N. Y., and staying a few nights a week in Manhattan at the Hotel Plaza with his daughter. "I've said right along-and I honestly mean it -that if I could go on and attend to my own living with my name never in the Press again, it would be Santa Claus...
...QUARTER GIVEN-Paul Horgan- Harper ($2.50). The author won the 1933-34 Harper prize with The Fault of Angels, his novel of Rochester, N. Y. and the Eastman-endowed opera there. His new novel also moves in musical circles with the usual allotment of squabbling artists. A composer, who has settled in Santa Fe, New Mex. for his health, struggles to complete his symphony, but his wife has social ambitions that conflict with work...