Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis v. John Henry Lewis (Wed. 10 p. m. NBC), all-Negro heavyweight championship fight. Blow-by-blow report by Clem McCarthy and Edwin C. Hill...
Eddie Cantor (Sun. 11 p. m. CBS, MBS, NBC-Blue), leads the March of Dimes to the assistance of the Warn Springs Foundation. Celebrities by the dozen...
Arriving in Manhattan after six weeks in Hollywood "for me 'olidays," blonde, blowzy British Comedienne Grade Fields whistled, whooped, kicked her legs in the air, dunked doughnuts obligingly for photographers, said: "I've got a lot of funny noises. I'm a bit nuts, but don't tell anybody...
Died. Emma Eurana Dinkey (Mrs. Charles M.) Schwab, 79, wife of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s longtime board chair man; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the first steel works chemist in the U. S., Mrs. Schwab helped her husband in experiments in a private laboratory during the first years of their married life. Later she devoted her time to extensive, unostentatious philanthropy...
...married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted, decadent Southern town of Jefferson...