Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors Island in New York Harbor is the headquarters of the Commanding General, Second Corps Area. Hugh Aloysius Drum at 59 is the ranking major general of the Army. He is vigorous, keen, ambitious to go on to the top after holding six high commands, including Hawaii. Until last week, most Army men would have bet that "Drummie" was about to go on to Malin Craig...
...their third successive Sunday regatta, the Crimson sailors will strive for Quad honors (Harvard, M.I.T., Dartmouth, and Brown) on May 21. From June 20-22 they will defend their championship laurels won last year in the MacMillan Cup Regatta at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
...illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators...
This year Ellison ("Tarzan") Brown, 24-year-old Narragansett Indian from Westerly, R. I., did not follow his usual custom. He hung back, let Leslie Pawson, the favorite, go out in front. At Natick the Rhode Island Redskin (whose Indian name, Attuck-Quock-Wussete, means Deer-foot) found himself leading the pack, along with Walter Young, 1937 winner. Together they loped along for twelve miles...
...Judith Traherne, Bette Davis is a horsy Long Island heiress with a stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...