Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Hull Jacobs, daughter of a well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered...
...preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate nurse "most perfect in looks, charm, poise, intelligence." Winner: Helen Clark, 22, well-dressed Tucson, Ariz, brunette. Eugenist Paul Popenoe of Pasadena's Institute of Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged to marry by increasing the circle of their acquaintances, by developing...
...Lynn, Mass., newshawks spied War Veteran Michael Collins, his dog, Madame Queen, and his duck, Mac, hiking along the road to Maine. Explaining he wanted treatment at the Togus, Me., soldiers' home, Veteran Collins said he, Madame Queen and Mac had hiked all the way from Phoenix, Ariz, in a year...
...expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile as fun until she was hurt in an accident in Phoenix, Ariz. Since the water-squirting episode, she has been one of Mae West's best friends...
...unwilling newsmaker is short, stocky Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford's School of Engineering. When the Globe (Ariz.) Record last year published an interview quoting him as saying that his brother Herbert would not run for President in 1936, Brother Theodore exploded: "A complete fabrication!" Last week Theodore Hoover made undeniable news by announcing that, having reached the age of 65, he would retire from Stan ford in June. Promptly newshawks amended: ". . . To go fishing with his brother Herbert...