Word: douglaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haunted Grosz. Since he arrived in the U. S. in 1932, Artist George Grosz has made small capital of his fame as No. 1 War satirist and scourge of post-War vice in Germany. Settled in Douglaston, L. I. with his wife and two small sons, Artist Grosz instead apprenticed himself to the art of oil painting in 1934, has worked hard at it ever since. Last year his explosive Street Fight stirred visitors at a Whitney Museum annual (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938); single "Studies in Textures" have appeared elsewhere. Last autumn George Grosz became a U. S. citizen. This...
Died. Carl Ludwig Weagant, 26, yachtsman, associate editor of Yachting; by his own hand (hanging); in Douglaston, L. I. In 1929 Mr. Weagant sailed a 46-ft. ketch from Ithaca, N. Y. to Ithaca, Greece, presented the Greeks with a stone from the Cornell campus engraved "Cornell Forever...
...Douglaston, L. I., at the 155-yd. 15th hole of North Hills Golf Club, C. X. Bieth smacked a mashie shot, watched his ball plop into the cup for a hole-in-one. Leaving the green C. X. Bieth heard a shout. J. H. Kracke, playing in the foursome behind, had smacked a No. 3 iron shot, also holed...
...resford '28, 2L, of New York City; C. H. Burgess '31, 1G, of Sheridan, Wyoming; W. W. Foshay '31, Henry Fellow, of Port Chester, New York; C. E. Galston '30, 2L, of Woodmere, New York; J. C. Hubbard, Jr. '31, 1G, of Wayland; W. H. MacHale '31, 1GB, of Douglaston, New York; R. W. Meadows '32, of Buffalo, New York, Vernon Munroe, Jr. '31, Fiske Scholar, of New York City; J. H. Pratt '30, 1L, of Washington, D.C.; A. N. Webster '31, 1L, of Lexington
Buddy and Marcia, manager and editor of the Douglaston Weekly, filed suit against Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Co. of Jamaica for nonpayment of an $182 advertising account (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Justice Thomas C. Kadien Jr. in Jamaica Municipal Court awarded judgment to the plaintiffs. The oil company had contended that its representative, one Charles Matthews, was without authority to contract for advertising. But Justice Kadien ruled the company responsible, inasmuch as it was aware of the appearance of the advertisement for 14 consecutive issues yet made no effort to cancel...