Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the Woolworth design, Mr. Gilbert's greatest-in-size was the huge George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, for which he was consultant architect and which, against his wishes, was never encased in granite. Two Gilbert buildings were in construction at the moment of his death: the new $9,700,000 U. S. Supreme Court building in Washington (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a $10,700,000 Federal Court House for Manhattan...
...disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that she is in the funny papers, and adapts her dynamic portrait of Harold's high-school sweetheart, Lillums, accordingly. The high-school girls are like those in this particular version of secondary school life, we shall seriously consider abandoning Harvard for another fling at life among...
Charles H. Johnson of Cranberry Lake, N. J.: the seventh annual outboard-motor boat marathon down the Hudson River from Albany to New York (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr., 59 min., 38 sec. In his Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood...
...Thomas Ferguson Locke of Boston, 124; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr. of Concord, New Hampshire, 115; and Arthur Wingate Todd of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 115. The Sophomores chosen were Robert Smith Playfair of West Roxbury, who received 223 votes; Shaun Kelly, Jr. of Richmond 211, and Braman Gibbs of Hudson...
...Baker's advice on how to get rich was to buy U. S. common stocks and "sit on them." More than 97% of his fortune was in stocks. He invested in but two bond issues-$2,000,000 in 31% Liberty Loans, $50,000 in Bear Mountain-Hudson River Bridge$8. His real estate holdings were less than $800,000; his life insurance, $85,802. Among his securities the largest single item was 14,000 shares of Manhattan's First National Bank, which he headed for 54 years and which has earned big money more consistently than...