Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the 1925 Pulitzer Races at Mitchel Field, L. I. had the East witnessed an air meet of national importance, until this week (Oct. 7 & 8) when the National Charity Air Pageant was to be held at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Sponsored by an enormous committee of socialites, the Pageant is for the benefit of Manhattan's Judson Health Center, Emergency Exchange Association, and for Junior League charities outside New York State...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who has been trying for five years to win the National Open Championship. To help him at Meadow Brook last week, he had Cecil Calvert Smith, the hard-riding Texas cowboy who was called the greatest player of the year after the West beat the East at Chicago last August (TIME, Aug. 21, 28); and two of the Balding brothers, Gerald and Ivor, who come from England to the U. S. for every polo season...
...Auroras are led by wiry little Banker Seymour Horace ("Shorty'') Knox, of Buffalo's East Aurora Polo Club. There were no other Buffalonians on his team last week. His back was large, smiling Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California. Between Knox at No. 1 and Boeseke were two Long Islanders, Jimmy Mills and Elbridge ("Ebby") Gerry...
...give him one if he can acquire a following, he thinks up the scheme of jumping off Brooklyn Bridge. His wager with Connors is a fine funeral against Connors' barroom. Brodie wins the bet. Chuck Connors thinks he did it dishonestly, gives him a thrashing on an East River barge. The Bowery ends with a reconciliation between Connors and Brodie. They are off to Cuba together, with Swipes concealed in the rumble seat of a gun-wagon...
Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...