Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having recently returned to America, my attention has been drawn to an account in your issue of Dec. 18 headed "Premier Duke & Jackson'' describing the tragic fire which took place at my house the "Heronry," England...
...Toronto's Irvin ("Ace") Bailey, there was a question of whether Boston's Eddie Shore would be allowed to play. One of Shore's characteristically furious charges had caused the accident that gave Bailey a fractured skull, put him out of hockey for life (TIME, Dec...
Left. By James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, famed oldtime jockey who died apparently destitute in Los Angeles last December (TIME, Dec. 11; Jan. 1): $9,500 in trust to his ten-year-old daughter...
...Freundlich Inc. for infringing their copyright by manufacturing Betty Boop dolls. The case came before famed Judge John M. Woolsey, in the same handsomely appointed Bar Association Building court room where two months ago he handed down his historic decision on Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Dec. 18). After examining a Betty Boop doll and specimens of the real Betty Boop, Judge Woolsey ordered Ralph A. Freundlich Inc. to stop making the dolls, ordered an accounting of their profits. Like his famed decision in the case of the U. S. v. Ulysses, Judge Woolsey 's opinion was accompanied...
...that cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while dressing down a ladies' lecture club in Philadelphia (TIME, Dec. 11), Actress Le Gallienne threw down the gavel, stormed into the micro phone: "I came to Minneapolis proud of my Viking ancestry. I'm still proud of it. You can't be Vikings. . . . You are lousy Americans! Unpatriotic dullards!" The crowd howled and jeered as angry Actress Le Gallienne swept from...