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...9th Guest. There are four pairs of guests, mysteriously summoned to a penthouse party, each pair having reason to mortally fear and hate the other. They are: A socialite and the woman lawyer who knows her closest secret; an upperclass politician and the political boss who defeated him; a university president and a disgruntled instructor whom he has dismissed; two lovers who have quarreled over valuable real estate. Invited by anonymous telegrams, as they arrive each thinks one of the others is host. None of them can understand why they have been brought in the company of their adversaries. Suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...outstanding Congressional upset in the Ohio primary came in the 9th (Toledo) District where big, white-haired Republican Representative William Wallace Chalmers, weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...0Ferguson, 2b. 5 0 2 1 1 1Deetjen, 3b. 5 0 3 3 2 0Brown, p. 3 0 0 0 3 0Mansfield, p. 1 0 0 0 1 0* Davan 1 0 0 0 0 0Totals 43 8 13 24 9 1* Batted for Mansfield in 9th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SCORES 8 IN FIFTH TO WIN OVER COLBY 12 TO 8 | 4/30/1930 | See Source »

...eSouther, p., 4 0 0 0 4 0*Shute 1 0 0 0 0 0**Stiles 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- --Totals 30 1 4 24 13 2*Shute batted for McKown in 9th.**Stiles batted for Rose in 9th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVENS STRIKES OUT 11 AS HARVARD TRIMS BOWDOIN, 5-1 | 4/17/1930 | See Source »

...Father of the House of Lords" is that genial golfer George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, two years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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