Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Glenn Foster ("Slats") Hardin, 21, holder of the 400-metrer hurdles world record, twice (1932-36) Olympic champion; and Margaret Thelma Riddle, 22, daughter of a Louisiana State Representative; in Washington...
...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
Last week the Whitney Museum of American Art honored these men with an exhibition entitled "New York Realists, 1900-1914." Nine were chosen: Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, Glenn O. Coleman, Guy Pène DuBois. Of this lot Artists Henri, Luks, Glackens, Shinn and Sloan were trained in Philadelphia. All but Henri, Luks, Bellows and Coleman were still alive and painting hard...
...associates' ambition to paint the New York life that surrounded them, Artists Arthur B. Davies and Maurice Prendergast never painted that sort of picture. They were thus omitted from last week's show and their places taken by three of Robert Henri's ablest pupils : Bellows, Glenn Coleman, Guy Pène Dubois...
...only 45.6 ft. at Memphis. Yet last week Memphis was not badly worried, because in the past eight years the Army's brains and Congressional generosity have provided the Mississippi with a flood control system whose limits will supposedly never be approached. Why, stormed Indiana's Representative Glenn Griswold, was not something like that done about the Ohio? It was "stupid," said he, to build levees on the Mississippi to hold floods which rose and did their first damage on the Ohio. "It seems to me," said this Democratic member of the House Flood Control Committee, "that Congressmen...