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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago finally became too small for him. He went to Florida where officials did not receive him cordially. Through a dummy he purchased for $65,000 a great white stucco house with a nile-green tiled roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife...
Died. Edward Franklin Albee, 73, Manhattan theatrical manager; at Palm Beach; of angina pectoris. As a boy he ran away from his native Machias, Maine, to join a wagon show. Working for the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum. he met Benjamin Franklin Keith. Together they built theatres, organized a vaudeville circuit which ultimately became $67.000,000 Keith-Albee-Orpheum, bought by Radio Corp. two years...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...
...Vincent Richards, onetime National Amateur doubles champion, fatter than he used to be but stronger, still reputed to be the best volleyer in the world: the Southern Professional Tennis championship at Palm Beach, beating in the finals Paul Heston, private tennis instructor to Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post...
With their usual featured program the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will travel to Swampscott tonight where they will be the drawing card at an entertainment sponsored by the Phillips Beach Neighborhood Club. Among the 54 men who will make the trip are F. S. Holmes '31, R. G. Edwards '31, and G. W. Briggs '31, who will give a joint speciaity number famous for Holmes' rendering of "When Nero Played His Fiddle...