Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Crook is, of course, only the latest chapter in the astonishing adventure of four gentlemen in Hoboken. For years the Three-Hours-For-Lunch-Club, a semi-mythical organization of Manhattan gourmets, has met occasionally in the New Jersey port, drawn across the Hudson by German cooking and the fact that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad...
...Dodge Sales Co. was formed to market the products of the same group amounting to approximately 500,000,000 lbs. a year. In January Phelps Dodge made overtures looking forward to acquisition of a group of brass foundries and copper and wire and tube works in Connecticut and New Jersey.* Thus in one year Phelps Dodge has added to its mining and smelting business, the refining of its own products as well as a comprehensive sales organization, and is reaching out to acquire an interest in the copper fabricating industries. In short, it is setting out to integrate a great...
When Mr. Wilder was asked about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and his literary plans for the future, the author said, "The book was written between the duties of a teacher at a preparatory school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book...
...Captain's two children, a boy of nine and a girl of eight, are his by a previous marriage. She?"Captain" Barker? was originally Miss Lilias Irma Valerie Barker, daughter of a rich, landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced...
Died. Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles, 65, of Bronxville, N. Y., president of the Johns-Manville Corp., onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., onetime bicycle enthusiast & manufacturer, native of Jersey City, N. J.; of heart disease; in Del Monte...