Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder Flagler lived only one year after his triumphal entry into Key West. The bulk of his fortune was left to his wife, Mary Lily Flagler, who was a seamstress in a Newport mansion when Mr. Flagler met her while visiting her employers. Later she married Robert Worth Bingham, now U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. To him she left $5,000,000, but again the bulk of the Flagler fortune went undivided into a trusteed estate. In her will, Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bingham made one provision which has kept lawyers guessing ever since. For 21 years the residuary...
...unions into a Committee For Industrial Organization. Purpose: to spread industrial unionism. Last month the A. F. of L. Executive Council, sitting at Miami, ordered the Lewis committee dissolved. The answer to this order came last week when the miners met in Washington. Raising his beefy bulk above the assembled delegates in Constitution Hall, President Lewis put the case bluntly: "All the members of the Executive Council will be wearing asbestos suits in hell," before he is willing to knuckle under. But: "There is only one place in the United States from which I take my orders, and that...
...first appeared on the same stage, won front-page headlines as a homespun Missouri miss who at 19 was deemed worthy of opera. The Talley bubble soon burst, while Melchior went on to be known as the Great Dane, partly because of his artistic prowess, partly because of his bulk (250 lb.). In Denmark Melchior ranks as a national hero. He was brought up by Kristine Jensen, a Danish "Fanny Farmer," who cared for him after his mother's death, taught him to like to cook, paid for his lessons out of her recipe earnings. Tenor Melchior was well...
OHIO UNIVERSITY'S Alumnus No. 1 is another man of huge bulk: Frank Crumit, radio network singer heard Sunday afternoons from coast to coast. A Phi Delta Theta, he once returned for a visit and gamely sang two of his own songs on a serenade program in front of Lindley Hall. To those who asked who Frank Crumit was, came the information: a jovial undergraduate with baseball and football ability, he left Ohio U. in 1912 to study music in Cincinnati. Thence, by way of vaudeville, he was featured in Broadway shows like Oh Key, Betty Be Good...
Married. Marshall Field III, 42, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion, who receives the bulk of his grandfather's $140,000,000 estate when 50; and Ruth Pruyn Phipps, who divorced Socialite Ogden Phipps last month; in Manhattan...