Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward Virginius Valentine, 91, of Richmond, famed sculptor (Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Jeb Stuart), boyhood acquaintance of Edgar Allan Poe, later friend of Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson; in Richmond...
...vice president in charge of traffic. He walked toward the president's office, stopped to say hello to a few clerks. They noticed he was in a good mood, an increasingly rare thing in this slim, purposeful man of 61, who had been in the railroad game since his boyhood, with Western Maryland for 17 years...
...Author. Lowell Thomas, 38, lecturer, journalist, traveler, onetime professor of oratory, was born in Ohio but spent his boyhood in Cripple Creek, Col., as miner, rancher, realtor, newshawk. During the War he was with Allenby's army in Palestine, with famed Col. Thomas Ed- ward Lawrence in Arabia. (Say partisans of Lawrence: it was partly to correct misstatements of Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia that Lawrence wrote his Revolt in the Desert.) After the War he accom- panied the Prince of Wales on a tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army...
...races she crossed the ocean on her own bottom and had to be rerigged when she got here, while the Enterprise has been tuning up all summer. 2) She is sailed by an Englishman unfamiliar with the ocean at Newport, while Skipper Vanderbilt has sailed at Newport since boyhood. 3) She is sailed by a professional, and professionals as a class are rarely as resourceful as amateurs...
...Germany last year, several months before he won the world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights...