Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
...slightly stooped man stepped to the bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan's rakish black Corsair steaming near the Nourmahal as committee boat...
More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...
Ferdinand Magellan, first world circumnavigator, required three years (1519?22) for his sailing trip. Author Jules Verne's fictitious "Phileas Fogg" required 80 days; Nellie Bly, New York World reporter, 72 days (1889); U. S. Army planes, 175 days, of which 15 were actual flying days (1924); John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, record holders, 23 days (1928). The Graf Zeppelin expected to fly twelve or 14 days, with four-day stops for fueling at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles?in all, a few days more than three weeks. The Mears-Collyer dash cost them...