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...Eyed Boss. As a kid on the streets of New Haven, Conn., where his father sold coal, oil and wood from a horse-drawn wagon, Podoloff seldom found time for fun and games. He worked his way through Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...
...planted a bomb to blow up Baby Doll," cried an anonymous telephone caller to Hartford, Conn, police one night last week. The police shepherded 1,500 moviegoers into the street, searched the theater for an hour and a half but found nothing more explosive than the film itself, Playwright Tennessee Williams' sullen drama of degeneracy in the South (TIME...
...little Episcopal Church of St. Matthew's, in the little exurbanite community of Wilton, Conn., was holding its Christmas pageant. The Three Kings, swathed in sheets and parents' hand-me-down finery, came with their gifts to the manger. "Sleep in Heavenly Peace," sang the congregation. "Slee-eep in Heavenly Peace...
Died. Percy Marks, 65, onetime Brown University English instructor who intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound...