Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goldsmith, G. V. Gonlder, A. G. Hale, J. L. Harman, G. S. Havward, J. N. Hellmuth. J. N. Hedges. J. L. Howard, J. S. Howe, H. S. Howes. Sherman Hoyt, J. H. Humphrey, H. B. Jaffee, H. E. Jahn, W. B. Kantack, M. L. Kaplan, C. S. Kelly, J. F. Knowles, F. W. Lance. G. H. Leak. A. S. MacDonald. L. F. McHugh. R. R. Miller, R. L. Miller, J. M. Mitchell, J. T. Murpay...
Trippers on the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda last week were treated to a demonstration of a new aid to mariners-a device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news...
Bald, burly, able Artist George Benjamin Luks, 65, onetime signpainter, circus Wagon decorator, newspaper cartoonist in Cuba, oldtime rowdy Bohemian, began to worry about making a sideshow spectacle of himself after promising the Artists' Cooperative Market in Manhattan that he would paint a portrait of Dancer Doris Humphrey, for charity, before an audience of gaping New Yorkers. Coming well fortified for the ordeal, Artist Luks leaped on the platform, shouted at the astonished gathering: "I'm George Luks and I'm a rare bird! . . . You might as well leave the platform, young woman...
Died. Charles A. Brownell, 79, long-time dean of Detroit advertising men, president until 1912 of Brownell & Humphrey (sold out to J. Walter Thompson), advertising manager for Ford Motor Co. (1912-18), manager with two sons of the Ford State agency in Alabama; in Birmingham, Ala. He wrote some of the first automobile advertising copy when cars used tillers instead of steering wheels (Oldsmobile, Packard, Northern which later became Studebaker...
Other items on Americana's bill which you will probably like: the Doris Humphrey Dance Group's wave dance, in which 14 girls leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine...