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...businesslike office on the second floor of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History President F. Trubee Davison one morning last week picked up his telephone, heard a voice say: "Colonel Lindbergh calling." An acquaintance but no close friend of the onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the Colonel came quickly to his point: Would Mr. Davison's museum like to have, for keeps, the airplane and all equipment with which the Lindberghs had just flown to Labrador, Greenland, Europe, Africa, South America and back? When he recovered his composure President Davison managed to say he would be delighted...
Weakened by a prolonged cold, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. abandoned his annual trip to his Ormond Beach, Fla. winter home...
...jail for 199 days (TIME. Dec. 2, 1929). Yet of all the black sheep of the Harding oil scandals he alone has been able not only to hold his own but also to strengthen vastly his business prestige. Now he even has as his largest individual stockholder righteous John Davison Rockefeller...
...skit in As Thousands Cheer, currently the most popular musicomedy in Manhattan, represents John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bestowing Radio City on his father as a birthday present. In a tremulous rage, the elder Rockefeller takes after his son with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University...
Army did not bother to use any first string men for more than one period against Coe, hence the crowd saw nothing of Jack Buckler. Of the incredible team which Coach Gar Davison has built from football wreckage in his first season, Halfback Buckler is the most dangerous player because of his ability to pass unerringly while running at top speed. Fortnight ago Yale rarely could guess what Buckler was up to, could do little about it when they guessed right...