Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous family. He has three sons, Paul, Lester & Arthur - all working in the business - and four daughters, Helen, Mabel, Emma, Alice. All seven are married and have presented Father Cuddihy with a grand total of 28 grandchildren (some of them nearly as old as his youngest daughter). A frequent summer visitor is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick. famed chaplain of the U. S. S. Maine, who likes to putter around the place in a ragged sweater. Publisher Cuddihy knows well many a famed politician, among them Herbert Hoover with whom he dealt while the Digest raised some...
...Yorkers who frequent expensive speakeasies, Dwight Fiske has long been a familiar personality. Lean, hatchet-faced, with hands like carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom...
...rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer. A 200-lb. six-footer, he recently abandoned crutches, took an artificial leg. On the large grounds of his Des Moines home he has an elaborate court...
...Died. Eugene G. Northington. 53, retired lieutenant colonel of the U. S. Army Medical Corps who as a pioneer experimenter with x-rays first established their danger to the user; of cancer of the limbs caused by too frequent x-rays exposure; in San Francisco. Calif. To check the spread of cancerous tissue he had army surgeons operate on him 164 times, lost both arms...
...notorious Publisher Frederick Gilmer Bonfils had been dead for four months (TIME, Feb. 13); nothing to indicate that instead of "Bon's" bushy grey head bowed over the massive desk in his office, there was now poised the attractive blonde head of his daughter Helen. Following more & more frequent visits to the office since her father's death, she took complete charge last week, although the nominal publisher & editor is William C. Shepherd who was managing editor for 20 years...