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Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach...
Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle, N. Y...
Northwestern Mutual was founded by a rawboned old adventurer who never became its president. In Catskill, N. Y., in the 1840's lived a maker of invalid chairs who called himself General John C. Johnston. Soon after Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York was organized he got a job with it, placed his chair near the office door, never let a prospect by. In 1857 he gathered together the 36 trustees required to start a life insurance company in Wisconsin. By the time he had collected the $200,000 needed to begin operations the trustees had decided they...
Scores-Harvard 20, Princeton 43; Harvard 25, Yale 38; and Yale 27, Princeton 29. Time-24.30. Winner-Bonthron (P), Arthur Foote '33, Turley (Y), A. S. Pier, Jr, 35. Minor (Y), Canning (Y), J.S.Hayes '33, J. P. Scheu '35, C. F. Woodward '35, Walker (P), Morris (P), E. F. Bowditch '35, James Parton '34, J. M. Estabrook '34, T. A. Robinson '34, Hershey (Y), Spruance (P), Foedisch (P), J. G. Miller (P), Tracy (Y), Hill (R), Hamilton (Y), Gardiner (Y), J. W. Higgins '34, Watson (Y), Flanagan (P), Walsh (P), Mcllinger (P), Prentice (Y), H. R. Miller...
Scores: Princeton 25, Harvard 30; Princeton 21, Yale 38; and Harvard 23, Yale 35, Time-15.18. Winner-R. S. Playfair '36, Hull (P), Dellingr (Y), Hogan (P), J. R. O'Neill '36. Owen (P), Allen (Y), L. H. Orr '36, Earhart (P), Yard (P), D. Gratwick '36, Blackmer (Y), E. W. Dalton '36, Berg (Y), L. C. Leen '36, Hughes (P), Donaldson (P), Keily (P), T. L. Day '36, R. M. Peet '36, Edwards (P), Washburn (Y), A. M. Josephy '36, E. T. Farley '36, Young (Y), Karsten (Y), Mellinger (P), Hansberg (Y), Quinn...