Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Emmett ("Red") Ormsby, 41, American League baseball umpire; and Mrs. Helen Ormsby, 39: their eighth daughter (twelfth child); in Chicago. Weight: 111b...
...noticed that Mr. Simpson chose July 21, the eighth anniversary of his marriage, as the occasion on which to bed with Miss "Buttercup" Kennedy. It was also noticed that Mrs. Simpson, according to the evidence her lawyers introduced, suspected her husband of infidelity and was having Mr. Simpson followed by detectives at the time when Mr. & Mrs. Simpson dined with Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, as the guests of King Edward at St. James's Palace (TIME, June 8). If there had not long ago been established in Buckingham Palace, both above stairs...
...Symphony Hall will take place this week-end. Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," composed in 1910, is to be performed with Paul Althouse and Maria Ranzow as soloists. The work consists of a cycle of six songs, symphonically treated, which are really Chinese lyrics from the eighth century translated into the German and freely adapted by the composer. Although uneven in its quality, "Das Lied von der Erde" is certainly at least near-great and is well worth hearing for it is infrequently given. Mozart's Symphony in E flat, No. 26, is also to be played...
...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...project, the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartments for Negroes. Built by Mr. Rockefeller in 1927 as a low-cost, co-operative housing venture to provide decent living quarters for a small fraction of Harlem's black population, the handsomely-gardened buildings occupy a full block, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 149th and 150th Streets. They contain 511 apartments, largely units of four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done on a sound business basis...