Word: lindley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connellsville, Pa., State Police discovered that John Lindley Collins, 39, had stumbled into a sunken grave, smothered to death when he grabbed a 300-lb. tombstone which toppled on to his chest...
...under the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission, showed no surprise, explained nothing, allowed police cars to escort him and two girl friends in a taxi to the Holland Tunnel. He then disappeared. The mystery at once thickened and clarified when newshawks found beauteous Mrs. Groves, onetime Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, in tears at the Groves's triplex apartment on Park Avenue. Preceding her husband to New York by one day, she said, she had found their home in disorder, their two-months-old baby, Wallace Lindley, and his nurse both gone. Indicating that she believed by this time...
Half Way with Roosevelt (Viking Press, $2.50) by Ernest K. Lindley begins: "This book is based on the supposition that many people are becoming tired of extravagant language in politics." It ends: "Everybody knows that, if this country conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents...
OHIO UNIVERSITY'S Alumnus No. 1 is another man of huge bulk: Frank Crumit, radio network singer heard Sunday afternoons from coast to coast. A Phi Delta Theta, he once returned for a visit and gamely sang two of his own songs on a serenade program in front of Lindley Hall. To those who asked who Frank Crumit was, came the information: a jovial undergraduate with baseball and football ability, he left Ohio U. in 1912 to study music in Cincinnati. Thence, by way of vaudeville, he was featured in Broadway shows like Oh Key, Betty Be Good...
...Authors. Although Walter Winchell identifies Unofficial Observer as John Carter, who also writes under the name of Jay Franklin, no writer has admitted responsibility for The New Dealers, American Messiahs or Our Lords and Masters. Most political-literary gossips ascribe authorship to John Carter and Ernest K. Lindley, author of The Roosevelt Revolution and of a campaign biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Born in Richmond, Ind., in 1899, Author Lindley was a Rhodes Scholar, worked on the New York World and Herald Tribune as political commentator, is married, has two sons, now lives in Washington. Author Carter, formerly on the staff...