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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confidence in. the orderly processes of Nature, and hence he is not much given to astonishment. He sees marvels every day, and though they may fail to surprise him they may nonetheless scare him almost out of his wits. He is dismayed when a child is born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril...
...Born. To Columnist Walter Winchell and Mrs. (June Magee) Winchell; a son; in Manhattan. Name: Walter Jr. Weight: 7 Ib. 6 oz. The Winchells have a daughter, Walda...
...Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel was amused and entertained by him, found him tactful, with a flair for drawing out unsuspected talents, with an al- most feminine desire to please and say the right thing. Penniless, Lehr was a "little brother of the rich," hobnobbed with Wanamakers, Goulds, Fishes, Astors, Oelrichs. Born in Baltimore, son of a once-wealthy importer, he consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts and underwear, only asked that he let it be discreetly...
Bohrod, 27, Chicago-born son of a poor grocer and janitor, is demure, hardworking, blond. He worked as scorecard seller at the Chicago Cubs' ball park, advertising art apprentice, broker's clerk, printer's paper-jogger. Without any of the intellectual and artistic pretensions of Schwartz, he has won four Institute prizes...
...Born in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin, 36, is a 6 ft. 5 in. flagpole of a man, bespectacled, long-necked, argumentative and ironic, who has a steady job teaching lithography at the Art Institute. Like the others, he is an inveterate prizewinner...