Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced, Josephine Armstrong Gwynne, onetime Patou model, grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis: and Erskine Gwynne, socialite U. S. expatriate, editor of the French review Bonlevardier, grandnephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Paris...
...return of the shares, legally obstructed their sale (TIME, June 18). Last week they agreed to the sale if the proceeds were impounded for further wrangling. At the upset price of $5,249,500 the block was auctioned off to the one & only bidder, Diamond Match. President William Armstrong Fairburn must have chuckled softly at clearing $7,750,000 without lifting a hand, at profiting roundly from Ivar Kreuger's blasted dreams...
Harvard: Stroke--R. H. Martin '34; 7, Richard Stackpole '34; 6, T. E. Armstrong '32; 5, S. H. Wolcott, Jr. '33; 4, T. B. Knowles '34; 3, J. T. Mendenhall '35; 2, L. P. Jordan, Jr. '35; bow, D. W. Lewis '35; cox, F. F. Jones...
...Cassedy's shoulders when the stroke is raised, which is the most important duty of numbers 7 and 6. . ."Woof" Hallowell, brother of last year's Varsity captain, and a member of this same stern five in his Freshman boat, holds down number 4 seat in place of Armstrong. . .Erickson, number 3, is the man who claims he likes the four-mile "brush" (as Coach Bert Haines would call it) because you have time to settle down and row! . .A Californian, Ed Yeomans, keeps up the Californian rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran...
...Negroes behind Louis Armstrong are carrying the tune, when it can be detected behind his raspy, comical singing, his fancy trumpeting. Their rhythm is flawless, thanks to their leader who may smoke Muggles* to make his own performance hot but who realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis...