Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clyde Beatty cannot afford to let one of his animals get the idea that it is tough, that it can bully other performers. At that night's circus performance Sammy charged him, knocked him down. Next morning Trainer Beatty rounded up four brothers, Leo, Brutus, Nero Jr., King, oldest and toughest lions in his troupe. He drove them into the arena, prodded them to fury. Then he sent Sammy in. Sammy, still feeling tough, made a pass at Leo. The brothers closed in. That night Sammy, licking a dozen bites and scratches, was the meekest animal...
...majority stock interest in Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. With Mr. Cummings comfortably settled as board chairman and "chief executive" of Continental Illinois, President Roosevelt got around last week to picking his successor as FDIC's chairman. He was a Wisconsin banker named Leo Thomas Crowley and no tyro at New Dealing. Long before March 4, as chairman of Wisconsin's Banking Review Board by appointment of Governor La Follette, Mr. Crowley sponsored legislation to insure deposits of public monies and to bolster weak Wisconsin banks. Lately he has been close to Henry Morgenthau...
...Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner Jr. His brother Jo designed the set of a spacious country living room that helps to make By Your Leave a comfortably familiar knickknack...
...skaters, by wide margins: the North American speed-skating championships, long held by Canada; in a driving wind at Oconomowoc, Wis. Chunky Eddie Schroeder of Chicago won the men's title, comely Kit Klein of Buffalo, the women's, Leo Freisinger of Chicago, the intermediate Richard Beard of Minneapolis, the junior...
George Gershwin, famous composer-pianist and known the werld over for his "Rhapsody in Blue," will give a concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, January 14. He will have with him James Melton, well-known radio tenor, and also Leo Reisman's orchestra of 38 pieces, directed by Charles Previn...