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...long, so successfully has Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood raced his Miss America that many people think he has done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president of the British Oölogists Union, also bought two eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Auk Egg Auction | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...known to his father-in-law as Richard F. White but in Mapleton, Kan., a Thomas H. Camp was last reported there when his mother passed away and he was a pallbearer. He was 22 years old then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Brookline.Nelson, T., Gore C 44.Nicholas, J. W., James Smith A 32.Nicholson, T. K., Little's Block.Nickerson, C. S., 37 Birch St., Cliftondale.Norman, B., Jr., James Smith A 32.Norris, W. A., Persis Smith A 32.Norton, M., Gore B 42.Nutting, N. E., Gore D 21.O'Keefe, D. J., 70 Mapleton St., Brighton.Onphant, J. H., Jr., Gore A 21.Osborne, R. K., Gore A 42.Page, E. H., James Smith B 11.Palmer, S. D., 54 Dunster St.Palmer, W. P., 113 Ocean St., Dorchester.Parker, C. G., Jr., Standish A 34.Parker, C. L., 102 Centre St., Dorchester.Parker, F. E., Jr., George Smith B 22.Parsons, E., Standish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CRIMSON'S DIRECTORY OF FRESHMEN | 10/13/1914 | See Source »

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