Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion from 1932 through 1934. "Maureen" is square-jawed Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Miami who has been runner-up to the other two more often than anyone else. Last week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe of female golfers since the original appearance of "Glenna" herself. Last week, like most...
Founder Butler's brothers died not long after the firm was moved in 1879 from Boston to Chicago, where its headquarters have been ever since. Prospering exceedingly, ''E. B." Butler lived until 1928, sinking some of his catalog millions into philanthropies like Jane Addams' Hull House and the Glenwood Manual Training School south of Chicago. He fathered the enabling legislation that promoted Chicago's Lake Front development. But before he died, old "E. B." reluctantly admitted that the cherished catalog that had made him rich could no longer serve as a wholesaler's sole...
Divorced. Mr. & Mrs. Paul McHenry, parents of 11-year-old Alyce Jane McHenry,. "upsidedown stomach girl," whose highly publicized operation temporarily reconciled them; in Omaha...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...
...Collegiate" is more than passing fair because of the dance routines of Betty Jane Cooper and her chorus and the comedy work of Lynn Overman. Penner is the rich angel for a charm school run by Jack Oakie, which teaches the girls how to dress, dance, and use cosmetics...