Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chico and Harpo were playing pianos, Groucho was developing his soprano voice. Confirmed in the Jewish faith at 13, he became a choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived...
...Alto, Calif...
...Promotion of other oil and mining companies brought his capital up to $4,000,000 in 1914. From this high point when he stopped private work, his fortune began to decline. He lived expensively, generously during the War and as Secretary of Commerce. He built fine homes in Palo Alto and Washington. In 1920 he dropped $300,000 on the Washington Herald, when he was thinking about the Democratic Presidential nomination. To Leland Stanford he contributed $150,000 for a War library. Other investments went bad. Concludes FORTUNE: "Mr. Hoover's present holdings would not realize on the market...
...Winner of third place on the hop, step & jump team at the final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started...
...Olympic Team when he broke the world's record for a mile last winter. It looked as though Venzke would surely be what U. S. Olympic teams have lacked since 1912-a runner good enough to win at 1,500 metres - until he went to Palo Alto last week...