Word: loth
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...unseen and unseeing audience of National Broadcasting Co. was not let in on the fun at first. Loth to help puff a competitor's stunt, NBC banned all mention of the brother-hunt when Burns & Allen were invited as guests of Chase & Sanborn's Eddie Cantor. Fleischmann's Yeast's Rudy Vallee. Crooner Vallee was actually switched off the air when he inadvertently referred to it. But since Eddie Cantor threatened to work in a reference in such a way that NBC would have to switch station announcements, NBC's protests have gone pretty much...
...night of last April's primary in Illinois, James Simpson Jr.. 27, towheaded, horse-fancying son of the then chairman of Marshall Field & Co.. thought he had won the Republican nomination for Congress in the Suburban loth ("North Shore") district. In May the official count gave the nomination to State Representative Ralph Church by 73 votes. A recount failed to change the outcome. Mr. Simpson took his case to court, was last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent...
Died. Henry St. George Tucker, 79, U. S. Representative from Virginia's loth District, onetime president of the American Bar Association, onetime dean of Washington & Lee's law school; in Lexington...
...news. Arthur Havers, who won the British Open in 1923 and is the only Englishman who has done it since 1920, had finished his third round in 68, a new course record, leaving him only four strokes behind. Rattled by the news, Sarazen took a nervous five at the loth. At the nth he mistimed his drive and the ball landed in the one clump of grass in an ugly wilderness of hazards called the Himalayas. He recovered for a par and the Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th...
...Leginska's women face severe obstacles. People seem loth to subsidize a woman's orchestra. No matter how creditably a woman may play, she can rarely get symphonic training.* Women who play wind instruments are additionally handicapped by the fact that they look funny blowing. Until this year the Chicago Woman's Symphony, conducted by Ebba Sundstrom, a dentist's wife, had men play the difficult winds. But in Manhattan last week there was stout Edith Swan to play the trombone, Amy Ryder, 60 years old and deaf, to lead the French horns. They did not worry about appearing ridiculous...