Word: marly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create the National Institute of Health under the Treasury Department...
...Horse Island. Among the 26 missing from the sealer Viking which sank after an explosion off Horse Island, N. F. last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook...
...Haven, Conn., Mar. 19--Albert J. Booth, Jr. '32, was elected captain of the 1932 basketball team at the annual banquet tonight. It is the second captaincy that Booth has received this year the other being football...
...little is, in fact, to have better luck than average; but for the Prince of Wales to have actually won only $50.40 was terrible publicity for Vina del Mar. Next night, when Prince George took the bank, Chilean publicity experts reported his winnings as 50,000 pesos...
...Dancing the tango at Vina del Mar's Casino, H. R. H. belied advance press notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina...