Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer...
...professional gamblers professed to like Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, an 8-year-old brown gelding which Miss Paget bought last year for $1,500 from a cavalry officer who could no longer afford to keep him. Kilstar stood firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire...
...confused with the Babylonian fire-walker, Meshach, of the famed firm of Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego (Daniel...
...just 22 when she tweaked Secretary Morgenthau's dignity nearly four years ago. Sensitive about her age ever since Cornell refused her a scholarship because she was only 16. Sylvia Field Porter graduated from Hunter College and talked her way into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses, she became its entire financial staff...
Inventor of this term and first great exponent of its arts was the late Ivy Lee, the man who transformed John D. Rockefeller's reputation from that of the most hated man of his day to that of the "great benefactor." Ivy Lee's firm, now under the direction of sober Thomas J. Ross, still has the Rockefellers, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chrysler Corp. and other industrial giants as clients. More spectacularly successful today are such younger rivals as Edward L. Bernays (Procter & Gamble, Allied Chemical & Dye), Carl Byoir (A. & P., Goodrich, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Steve Hannagan (Miami...