Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has lived its minimum statutory life of 25 years. The 1938 nickel will have on its heads side the profile of Thomas Jefferson, on its tails side his Monticello, Va. home. Schlag's design was chosen by Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross, Sculptors Heinz Warneke, Albert Stewart, Sidney Waugh from 390 designs which showed Jefferson standing, sitting, amused, grim, spindly, fat, and Monticello from all angles, in one case with an eagle perched on the roof...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...
...Robert Albert Haughey (pronounced Hoy) went neither to Groton nor Harvard, but did put in "a few years" at Muhlenberg College. He plays poor golf, does not ride to hounds, has no relatives at J. P. Morgan's. At 27 he has been in Wall Street barely long enough to learn the ropes with his Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this...
Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...
...PAST MUST ALTER-Albert J. Guerard-Holt ($2.50). Divorce tragedy, ranging through Iowa, California, Paris, a Swiss sanatorium, as seen through the eyes of an editor's precocious ten-year-old son. A first novel, written at 20, by the precocious, 23-year-old son of Stanford's Professor-Literary Critic Albert L. Guerard...