Monday, Aug. 01, 1938
"Names make news." names made this news:
To the Burlington, Wis. Liars' Club was elected Douglas Gorce Corrigan.
Tony Galento, clownish saloon-keeping heavyweight of Orange, N. J., was training for his Philadelphia fight with Negro John Henry Lewis five days before the bout. After flattening three sparring partners at Madame Bey's Summit, N. J., training camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104DEG temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared: "I'll lick it like I licked those other bums."
Some genealogists claim that Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille was the original name of the oil clan Rockefeller. Last week, a Dr. Yoss, archivist from the Rhineland, announced from Berlin that the Rockefeller ancestors were originally called Rockenfeller. Commented John D.'s 26-year-old grandson Winthrop: "interesting."
After a 26-day U. S. visit which proved that the better behaved a royal family may be the less interest it holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan.
When, in 1930, Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before: up almost $13.000,000 to $127,908,321.
In Redwood City, Calif., Frederick S. Moody Jr. applied for a license to wed Florence Gayle, 18-year-old San Francisco nightclub entertainer. This Mr. Moody gave San Francisco's Olympic Club as his residence, oil broker as his occupation, divorced as his marital status. Queried by reporters same day, Frederick S. Moody Jr., Olympic Club member, oil broker, divorced husband of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, denied filing the application, denied knowing Miss Gayle. Snapped he: "I was in San Francisco all day."
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