Word: ep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Pittock's longtime private secretary, made a long anticipated move. Pending expiration of the trust, when Mr. Price plans to retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive job as manager was Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 41, onetime logger who has been the Oregonian's managing editor since 1933. Editor Paul Roelofson Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper...
...York University swordsmen: the Intercollegiate Fencing Association three-weapon team trophy. No. 1 collegiate fencing honor; for the fourth successive year; placing first in the sabre event, second in foils and second in epée; winning 73½ bouts out of 99 in the two-day, twelve-college round robin; in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Astor, New York City. Runner-up was Yale, with 69½ victories. Navy finished third with 66, Army fourth with...
...appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course, Sculptor Jacob ("Ep") Epstein, creator of primordial monuments in London. - ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 4 under Business & Finance, you say, "James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000." I think many...
...forward-bending posture. His Minneapolis osteopath straightened him up by massaging the nerve centre in the small of the back, by directing Publisher Murphy to lie for a period each day flat on the floor with his hand under the small of his back. - ED. Ed for Ep Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details referring to famed Jacob Epstein? If so, a large demerit for wanton perversion of the facts. ALLEN WELLER...
...high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney's job was to keep it centred, neatly bisecting the runway needle. Also he had to keep his ears alert for a shrill "Be-e-e-ep!" in his earphones. That meant: "You are now 1,000 ft. from the field boundary. Throttle down." On he went, eyeing his needles, until he heard another "Be-e-e-ep!", lower pitched, meaning: "Edge of the field! Cut the motor!" By this time the pilot could see the ground...