Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Mylong Muenz, Yiddish Clark Gable of pre-Nazi Germany, leading man in one of Greta Garbo's first starring films (UFA's Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter...
...years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge in three previous Cup matches, had proved to be a chump with any other partner, and Bobby Riggs & Elwood Cooke (who were good enough to win the Wimbledon Doubles championship this summer) were trounced by Quist & Bromwich...
...Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr; TIME...
...Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr; TIME...
Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...