Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...
Tall, heavy, slightly pop-eyed Mr. Wiggin belongs to many clubs, has a modest collection of etchings, a wife who sculps from time to time in a MacDougall Alley studio. He is jovial with acquaintances. He plays excellent poker with fierce intensity. As a golfer, he is never more dangerous to his opponent than when behind. He has a large collection of locker-room anecdotes...
...from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company in Wall...
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...Piping Rock Club which he helped to found years ago on Long Island's smart North Shore. There he played against his daughter, Mrs. Richard Brown West Hall, whose husband, a member of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., was at his office. Then he went to his Oyster Bay home. Jovial, hungry, he descended the stairs two at a time when dinner was announced. At the table were his daughter and son, John M. Schiff, graduate of Yale in 1925. After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About...