Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Powel Crosley, 82, Cincinnati lawyer, early radio enthusiast, father of President Powel Crosley Jr. of Crosley Radio Corp.; in Cincinnati...
...pronouncements and publications have made it plain. At a time when the social and economic structure is being continually altered, there is room for jurists who have an eye to the whole scene and are not bound too closely by tradition. Professor Frankfurter is an idealist and an enthusiast, who will not confine himself to more defense of the status quo; that he is endowed with the judicial temperament is to be doubted. He will, however, collaborate with six other justices, with whose opinions, doubtless, he will frequently express dissent. In this over-worked court, criticized as too narrowly legalistic...
Untypical U. S. athlete is Ohio State's junior, Jack Keller, whose 14 sec. time in the 120-yd. high hurdles beat Percy Beard's A. A. U. record of 14.2 sec. A John Galsworthy enthusiast, 6 ft. 3½ in. tall, gaunt and saturnine, he is married, has refused to join a college fraternity. As a high-school freshman he stood around watching Ohio State's Star Sprinter George Simpson but the track coach put him into the hurdles instead. Last week, after winning the high hurdles, he seemed on his way to a low hurdles...
Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis...
...small, intensely loyal staff Publisher Thomason is "Uncle Emory." Female secretaries in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association say "he is the nicest president we ever had." A golf enthusiast, he once played 136 holes in a day, dined immediately afterward and then lost consciousness. He enjoys a crap game but would rather play chess, always carries a pocket-size chess board when he travels. With only a few minutes to catch a train to New York for a flying trip one day he made his business manager accompany him, without baggage, so he could have a chess opponent...