Word: bend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, trainer of Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen, operator of a Manhattan gymnasium, where he molds Paul Whiteman and other rotund celebrities into prettier shapes; and Mrs. Ethel Colten; both for the second time; in South Bend...
...race for glory and for fame and for the money we can make." Thus wrote swashbuckling, 43-year-old Roscoe Turner, wax-mustached dean of U. S. speed fliers, in this month's Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course in 63 min., 42.52 sec.-an average speed...
Indiana: Donald H. Eldredge, Jr., 17, of South Bend; Central High School...
...hell. But Cortlandt Bishop was rich enough to stand the strain. When he died in 1935 sales were picking up, and he left his own galleries the job of auctioning off his collection of art objects, books and engravings. Executors of the Bishop estate included his widow, Amy Bend Bishop, and his old friend and employe, Edith Nixon. Widow and friend were both dissatisfied with sales of the Bishop art. They looked about for a book expert to help courtly President Hiram Haney Parke (art specialist who had been with the company 25 years, had run it for Owner Bishop...
...stood and waved, but my mother-in-law reminded us of the old superstition that one must not watch people out of sight, so before they turned the bend we were back in our cars and on our way home...