Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier this month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
...MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...
...time rumrunner was Captain Bill ("The Real") McCoy, now living in West Palm Beach, Fla. where he owns an apartment house and builds boats with his brother Ben. He announced last week that in 1934 he had been commissioned by one P. D. Pina Chevalier, an uncle of President Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic, to design a $20,000 all-mahogany schooner as a Dominican gift to Franklin Roosevelt. Captain McCoy said the designs were all finished, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, and he was only waiting for suitable mahogany to be found to go to the Dominican Republic...
Divorced. Potter d'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family; by his third wife, Pauline, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: habitual intemperance and cruelty. Palmer's first two wives supposedly received divorce settlements totalling about $5,000,000, but the third Mrs. Palmer received only $250 a month alimony and counsels' fees ($10,000). Few days after his divorce, Potter Palmer married Pluma Louise Lowery Abatiello, 23, roadhouse waitress...
...BABCOCK Jacksonville, Fla...