Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describe Alice Marble as a new face is not entirely accurate. Her tennis career began when she was 14. That year, her eldest brother Dan gave her a racquet and suggested that instead of playing baseball and basketball with boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become...
...Belinda Dan (Dobson) was born in a barn near Carleton, N. C., the daughter of a farmer who also made coffins for a living. Ambitious even in early girlhood, she hated the hard, constricting life of the farm, finally ran away. When she decided to become a nurse, the story really begins...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...
Named in the indictment was practically every prince and potentate in U. S. oildom. The list included President Edward G. Seubeit of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Dan Moran of Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude of Shell Union Corp., President Alexander Eraser of Wolverine Petroleum Corp., President J. F. Drake of Gulf Oil Corp., President Henry May Dawes of Pure Oil Co., President William Starling Sullivant Rogers of Texas Corp., President Earle Westwood Sinclair of Sinclair Refining Co., President Edward L. Shea of Tide Water...
Married- Dr. Katsuma Dan, 29, youngest son of Japan's late, great Banker Baron Takuma Dan (Mitsui), who was assassinated by militarists (TIME, March 14, 1932); and Jean McNair Clark, 26, of Milford, Conn., his associate in biological research at the University of Pennsylvania; in Philadelphia...