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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talbott, a portly, indomitable woman of 70, once had notions of becoming a singer herself. Instead she married Harry Elstner Talbott. an engineer who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. They had seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There...
Four years ago the businesslike Elder built a brick church in Washington, plastered it with crosses and slogans "such as "Happy Am I" and "Willingly Jesus Suffered for Victory." He lives in a good neighborhood, runs a Negro employment bureau and a Happy News Cafe, and at odd times issues a paper called Happy 'News which consists mainly of articles about Elder Michaux and God. The Elder forbids smoking and drinking among his followers, enjoins fasting both as penance and as means of saving money for the Church of God and its charities. He accepts no salary, only...
...Riptide-Produced by MGM Unfortunately typical of the pictures that have been built around Norma Shearer, the much publicized wife of Irving Thalberg who picks her plays and her roles. It seems typical of Hollywood morality that a husband as production manager should constantly cast his charming wife in the role of a loose and immoral woman. . . . We advise strong guard over all pictures which feature Norma Shearer. .. . Protest. . . . Protest...
...fuel capacity of 13 oz., a tiny one-cylinder Brown engine. Followed by a full-sized plane from take-off to landing she climbed 8,000 ft., glided 10 mi. in descending circles after her fuel gave out, made a neat three-point landing in a cow-pasture. Built by Maxwell Bassett, 19, of Philadelphia, winner of the Admiral Moffett and Texaco Trophies for gasoline-powered model planes, Miss Philadelphia IV will have her record certified by the National Aeronautic Association which observed her flight...
...been the nation's prime example of the political meddling, jealousy and intrigue which bedevil most state universities. It came to the fore during the eleven-year administration (1915-26) of the late Henry Suzzalo. Able in politics as in pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named...