Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were gathered for the wedding of Frances, daughter of Frank Cheney Jr. to Roger, son of Architect Charles A. Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications of relationship between the various families descended from the original seven Cheney brothers: Ralph, Ward...
...Garibaldi, by General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford, Conn., civil engineer, antiFascist, grandson of the famed Italian liberator; in Nyack, N. Y. Said she: "The General seeks to annul our marriage . . . it is a much finer thing . . . than the business of an ugly New York divorce." Donna Madelyn divorced her first husband in Yucatan...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...
...Manhattan last week a rowdy, bloody battle broke aboard Authoress Joan Lowell's first literary ship, The Cradle of the Deep (TIME, March 18). The book was published in March by Simon & Schuster, playboys of the publishing world, who in 1927 promoted the bull-elephantine Trader Horn...
...whopper-publishers sent forth The Cradle of the Deep as "autobiography" -truth, human document, veracious account of the author's first 17 years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...