Word: lewin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished the job. Meanwhile the presiding genius, Irving Thalberg, died, left Al Lewin the production problems. Near Chatsworth, Calif., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rented 500 acres, carved a replica of a Chinese landscape complete with Great Wall.* Real farms were planted, a real water buffalo imported to turn the imported water wheels. A year and five months were spent shooting 5,500 extras. In China...
Next was Marshall Wayne, Olympic high diving champion 1936, and also National champion. To add humor to their exhibitions of steel nerve. Bill Lewin, self-admittedly the world's funniest water comedian, does a few turns of his own. With Art Phillips, nine years holder of the Canadian and British Empire diving titles, he does a complicated dive that is supposed to be representative of a man riding a horse...
...America, two gliders flying in formation rose to 6,500 ft., broke the U. S. record of 6,233 ft. set last summer at Elmira by Richard Chichester du Pont (TIME, July 9). Pilots of the two gliders were President Warren Edwin Eaton of the Soaring Society and Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite. World's altitude record for motorless planes is held by Austria's Robert Kronfeld, who soared...
...thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...
This story, which assumed international importance opened in January 1933 when Normano was arrested in his Cambridge home on a complaint sworn out by German Consul Kurt von Tippleskirch, for implications in a Berlin swindle. Normano was identified by German authorities as Isaac Lewin who had promoted a $750,000 counterfeiting job in Germany and then field to South America...