Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
Bruce, Jackson Martin, Jr., of 414 East Appletree Road, Milwaukee, Wis.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Cabot, David of Avondale, Westerly, R. I.; Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Cushing, Matthew of 27 Dixwell Avenue, Quincy, Mass.; Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass. Jertson, Jan Earl of 70 Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Kimball, John Ward of 50 School Street, Andover, Mass.; Phillips Academy, Andover Mass. Lowry, Edward George, 3rd of Sweet Hollow Road, Huntington, N. Y.; Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn. Mason, James William of 2005 Dalton Rr., Greensboro, N. C.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Newbury...
...more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet, and I'd have played fifth if Earl hadda...
...more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice and guidance. When Canada's star hurdler, Earl Thomson, went lame in practice, Moakley put his trainer to work on the sore spot; in the finals Thomson beat the U.S. men for the championship...
...twenty-fifth reunion, come the Rev. Russell Sturgis Hubbard, Episcopal bishop of Detroit; Charles Poletti, former lieutenant governor of New York; Judge Peter Woodbury of the United States Court of Appeals; novelists Oliver LaFarge and F. Van Wyck Mason; Editor William L. White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette; and Earl L. Brown of Life Magazine...