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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina boys, led by George Stirnweiss and Jim ("Sweet") Lalanne, two of Dixie's most spectacular razzle-dazzle backs, bedoozled their ancient rivals, North Carolina State, 17-to-0. Undefeated so far this season, North Carolina seemed headed for not only the Southern Conference title but its first undefeated season since...
Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
...husband, the great but forgotten Major George Washington Whistler. Biographer Parry has a lively if somewhat insistent irreverence for the Motherhood which the Major's wife exuded throughout life and continues to symbolize in paint. As he reads the evidence, she snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry's story is mostly about the Major and his times. Son of the founder and first commandant of Fort Dearborn (later Chicago...
Mother Anna joined the Major in St. Petersburg in 1843, bringing young Jimmie and Willie (aged 9 and 7) and Deborah, the Major's child by his first marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes...
...Keith married and went to Borneo in 1934, returned to the U. S. on her first leave this year. She writes cautiously little, suggestively well, of the social stringencies of the European colony, "as gently inflexible . . . as the design on a set of teacups," devotes more specific attention to the weather, to servants and household pets, to guests, to a journey through the jungle...