Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
University of Wisconsin jacks & jills like to go up Madison's Observatory Hill at night. So does sandy-haired 54-year-old Dr. Joel Stebbins, the University's astronomer. Campus wiseheads chuckle over the saying that "many a co-ed has learned about life while Joel learned about the stars." They chuckle too at the way to amuse his friends, Dr. Stebbins vacillates between full Vandyke and Hitler mustache. A gourmet, he counts the table second only to the observatory. He would be an A-1 golfer if he did not let astronomy and eating interfere...
Banker Hoyt is a director of more than 60 corporations. An office which he hugely enjoys is his chairmanship of Madison Square Garden Corp. He lives on swank Lloyd's Neck, L. I. with his second wife, the former Mrs. Nelson Doubleday. One of his ambitions is to fly better than his daughter Eleanor, 20, who last year married youthful Alexis du Pont Jr. Racing speedboats used to be his chief hobby. Since 1926 he has competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made...
...Manhattan last week garrulous little Joe Jacobs, manager of onetime World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling revealed plans for a fight against Max Baer, to be promoted by Jack Dempsey, either in New York or Chicago next June; no fights under the promotion of Madison Square Garden Corp., which Manager Jacobs loudly distrusts...
...spun .on day & night. Last week, when the spider had spun and the clock undone some 420 times, clock and spider were sent to the University of Akron's Professor Walter Charles Kraatz. The insect had now become the size of an ordinary house spider. Director Harold Lester Madison of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History scoffed the idea of its growing, said the original "black dot" must have been an offspring of the present spider. He thought the cannibalistic female was eating her children or perhaps her husband, lost somewhere in the clockworks. Dr. Kraatz said...