Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. William Ellery Leonard, 59, longtime Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; and Grace Golden, 26, graduate student, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. In his autobiography, The Locomotive God, Professor Leonard described and analyzed the fears which for a quarter of a century have prevented his traveling beyond the phobic barriers of his home and the six blocks surrounding it. He was divorced last year by his second wife who, after 20 years of marriage, charged "cruel and inhuman treatment by means other than physical violence...
...misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed...
...clarity at all are possible. Yet into this hazy realm psychologists feel justified in pushing, and in reporting therefrom their findings, so long as, like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology department since 1922 and starred for distinguished research in American Men of Science, and Psychologist Winifred Bent Johnson present in the current issue of Character and Personality* a meaty, heavily documented summary of "Personality Characteristics of Happily Married, Unhappily Married, and Divorced Persons...
...West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more over the NBC radio network. One railroad president and two vice presidents judged the contestants on "pronunciation, articulation, inflection and diction...
...Fifth Avenue Bank followed the uptown trend of the residential district by establishing its first and only branch at Madison Avenue & 73rd Street...