Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Whitcomb writes his book in straight U. S. lingo, and the happy result is authentic U. S. reality-as far removed from literary realism as from the dreary violence of yellow journalese. Hero-narrator is one Matt Williams, U. S. bricklayer in his middle 30's; his story, told straight from the side of his mouth, is typical of hundreds of thousands but he tells it so freshly that it does not seem like an old tale. He starts in with a bang that never fades out to a whimper...
...dual meet) to Michigan last year. Michigan, winners of last year's National Collegiate Swimming championships (no dual meet), has tried to arrange a dual meet with Yale this season, without success. Last week, an Ann Arbor sportswriter parodied a series of letters between Michigan's Coach Matt Mann and Yale's Kiphuth. Samples...
Energetic Matthew Scott ("Matt") Sloan, who resigned as president of New York Edison Co. in 1932. was an executive without a major executive post until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...
Other elections from the Harvard faculty were as follows: Edgar Anderson, Franzo H. Crawford, Chester L. Dawes, Jacob P. Den, John F. Ebersole, Sterling P. Fergusson, Cyrus H. Fiske, Henry Jackson, Jr., Matt B. Jones, Donald H. Menzel, Richard S. Meriam, Harry R. Mimac, Leroy M. S. Miner, Arthur E. Monroe, Robert H. Pfeiffer, William C. Quimby, Sumner H. Schlicter, Carle C. Zimmerman...
...responsible for making the Derby the racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf...