Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week the New York Herald Tribune published a cartoon by Jay ("Ding"') Darling captioned "The Fates Are Funny That Way." It pictured a wreck at a railway crossing ("36,000 Die in Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand...
...distinction of bespectacled, imperturbable John Jay ("Jack") Price is that he is a news photographer who can also write English. Author (News Photography), longtime chief cameraman for the late New York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction...
William Wesley Waymack, 46, associate editor, has been in charge of the editorial page since Editor Ingham's virtual retirement. Like the Register & Tribune's famed Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, now on leave of absence as Chief of U. S. Biological Survey, he was hired from the Sioux City Journal, He is reputed the best amateur candy maker in the Midwest...
...Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...