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Because this letter is now acknowledged by Editor Oursler to be a forgery, allegedly by one Miss Kathryn Martin Lambert to whom Oursler paid $100 "as a pure gratuity" shortly before starting suit, Editor Oursler petitioned the New York court last month to permit him to discontinue the action. Last week, over the protest of Mrs. Macfadden that Editor Oursler knew the letter was a forgery when he began suit, discontinuance was granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Suit's End | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Running wide and fast, Air Pilot Sam found not a bird. This time, however, he handled like a champion and the judges, after matching his two performances, gave him the title, Handler Farrior the $1,500 purse and a leg on the Robert Worth Bingham Trophy to Owner Lambert D. Johnson, president of Evansville, Ind.'s Mead, Johnson Co. (baby food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Joe & Sam | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...warm and sunny up there. The workers were joshing each other about the softness of their jobs. Suddenly there was a jar as a corner bracket snapped and tilted the great platform. "It gave a funny shudder and lurched," said Lambert. In an instant another corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: San .Francisco Bridge | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Twenty minutes later, swept almost a mile toward the sea by the outgoing tide, Lambert was rescued by a fishing boat. He still had an arm around Dummatzen. But Dummatzen was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: San .Francisco Bridge | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

That, at Lafayette, Ind. last week, was the crucial moment of the most exciting game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball: Season's Climax | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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