Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date for the 1929-30 season is the most eagerly watched. But most of the world's musicians were last week in transit or on the verge of transit. Important was the arrival in the U. S. of Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first concerts of the New York Philharmonic-symphony. With him came wife and pet dog Piciu. Daughters Wanda and Wally come soon...
...Eleven Vermonters found New York University rockier than any boundary of an upstate cow-pasture, a wall that thudded past them avalanche-like...
Sharkey v. Loughran. There is a rule in New York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...
Died. Miller J. Huggins, "mite manager" (1918-29) of the New York American League baseball team ("Yankees"); in Manhattan; of erysipelas...