Word: carlton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlton Curtis, 43, a rich bachelor, was standing at the corner of 54th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, when he saw an automobile bearing down recklessly upon a 17-year-old Negro girl. He snatched her back to safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known...
...decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran & Co. let him go, said nothing, and last week let the American Sketch, a failure, be merged quietly with the New York Tatler Social Digest, a smartchart owned by Carlton Publishing Co. The new monthly will be called The Tatler and American Sketch, devoted chiefly to society, sport, Long Island realty...
...everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...
This evening at the Phillips Brooks House, a group of Australian boys, now touring the United States and Canada, will be entertained at dinner at 7.30 o'clock. Speakers for the evening include Winslow Carlton '29, A. E. French '29, and R. A. Stout '29, who will outline undergraduate life at Harvard for the benefit of the guests...
Tomorrow evening the corps will be entertained at the Phillips Brooks House at dinner at 7 o'clock. The speakers for the evening will be A. E. French '29, Winslow Carlton '29, and R. A. Stout '29, who will outline undergraduate life in the University for the benefit of the guests. Thursday, scattered groups of students will visit the objects of interest in the University as well as the more historical spots of Cambridge...