Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another innovation is the memorial park which Hubert Eaton, a Los Angeles mining engineer, developed. Mr. Eaton's 350-acre Forest Lawn Memorial Park, which has been copied far & wide, contains no tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt...
Tennis in the past five years has produced few new faces. Last week at Forest Hills it produced not only a new face but a new U. S. champion and a personage whom many experts considered quite likely to develop into the most exciting player of her sex since Suzanne Lenglen. She was blonde Alice Marble, 23-year-old San Franciscan who by beating Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the U. S. Women's Singles Championship accomplished the major tennis upset of the year...
...most beautiful of American game birds," needed no protection. The last existing specimen died in Cincinnati in 1914. "One solitary heath hen was living at last accounts."* The catch of Pacific salmon has dropped from ten million pounds annually to less than one million. Enough timber is destroyed by forest fires every year to build a five-room house every 100 feet on both sides of the road from New York to Chicago, although the effect of that, Stuart Chase observes, "might be worse than the conflagration...
...Quincy the spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with nothing short of duplicating here in New England at least one college of Cambridge University. Carried forward by the 'strong tide of Puritanism, the enterprise was at first blessed with almost miraculous success. The goal might well seem...
...hate losing even more. Since coming so close to outright defeat by, Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody has not entered any major tournaments. Last month she announced that she would henceforth make designing women's underclothes for Lastex her major interest (TIME, Aug 10). If she wins at Forest Hills this week, Helen Jacobs may reasonably conclude that her rivalry with Helen Wills Moody is essentially over and that she has attained...