Word: freeport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island. He asked Lillian to visit him, told her he wanted to write her a specially beautiful number. A few days later he took a dose of Paris green and died. In his overcoat pocket was found the manuscript of Come Down, My Evenin' Star...
Kirkpatrick scholarships to Richard R. Baxter, of New York, N. Y., candidate for A.B. Brown '42; Albert I. DaSilva, of Freeport, N. Y., candidate for A.B. New York University '42; Jerome Kinkelstein, of Jacksonville, Fla., candidate for A.B. Indiana University '42; Jacob H. Martin, of Blowing Rock, N. C., candidate for A.B. Oberlin '42; and Edgar J. Masters, of Lowellville, Ohio, candidate for A.B. Ohio University...
Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...
...Lost. In Freeport, L.I., a thief entered a dentist's waiting room, made off with two smoking stands, left a quart of sauerkraut in exchange. In Manhattan, police arrested a clothing-store burglar wrapped up in his loot. The loot: five women's dresses, four playsuits, 137 pairs of socks, 70 pairs of stockings, 39 pairs of anklets...
...extracting magnesium at the rate of 12,000 tons a year-26 times as much as in 1929. This spring Dow tapped a new source which has stirred everyone's imagination : it began mining sea water for magnesium at a great $15,000,000 plant at Freeport, Tex., which by year's end will be sucking in 12,000,000 gallons a day (enough water for a city of 120,000) and turning out 50 tons of metal-a rate of some 18,000 tons a year. This is 50% more than Dow's Michigan wells...