Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detects metal objects upon prison visitors; Eddie and Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers Gene Towne and Graham Baker, Yon Only Live Once sets a pace which 1937 cops-&-robbers sagas may find hard to beat...
Married- Angier Biddle Duke, 21, Yale junior, son & namesake of the late tobacco tycoon who left him. $5,000,000; and Priscilla St. George, 17, Tuxedo debutante, great-granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker: in Tuxedo...
...RENFREW OF THE MOUNTED" is a chilling thriller for youngsters who like the cops and robber game as played in the Canadian Northwest. In 1935, Joan Baker's interest in the Canadian North-west was very limited. She was a member of the Strollers at Ohio State, circulation manager of the Ohio Stater, contributor to the Lantern, and an athlete in women's intramurals. John Weigel was a classmate, working his way through Ohio State as an announcer at the local radio station. They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan...
...went earnestly ahead to take an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, read books, played serious roles on the Wisconsin stage, only to find herself doing strange things in radio in order to make a very good living. For example she stooges with that lustiest of radio clowns Phil Baker, under the preposterous name of Miss Heartburn. She is "Min" of the Gumps, now on the air and there plenty of clowning in this...
Spiciest bit was a memorandum found in the files of George F. Baker, Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, which Senator Wheeler read into the rec ord. It related a telephone conversation in March 1935 in which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being...