Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always as her laugh rang through the twilight or her glance shone as the golden bar of heaven the Vagabond saw some poor wight follow after as Merlin followed the gleam...
...championships started last week in Manhattan, several players looked good enough to win. First to fall was Jean Borotra of France. Declared the four-time winner: "I am getting too old. It looks like ping-pong next for me." George Lott, who limped with a sore toe, and Andre Merlin, French indoor titlist, went out in the quarterfinals. Frank Shields, No. 1 ranking U. S. player, and Sidney Wood, No. 6, were dropped in the semifinals...
False Dreams Farewell (by Hugh Stange; Frank Merlin, producer) deals, in the manner of Grand Hotel, with a group of passengers on board the S. S. Atlantia. They include: a dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain...
...Motormaker Walter P. Chrysler, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Radioman Merlin Hall Aylesworth and an English osteopath named W. H. J. Oxenham were to make up a foursome for an afternoon of golf, the osteopath would probably win. What would make such a victory remarkable is the fact that Osteopath Oxenham is totally blind. Last week at the West Hove Club near Brighton, England he was awarded a handicap of 20, which approximates the handicaps allotted to Messrs. Chrysler, Goldberg, Aylesworth, many & many another duffer who has good eyes to keep on the ball...
...floors of the 70-story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young, RCA's President David Sarnoff (speaking from London) and Sir John Reith, director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. with whom the tycoons chatted across the sea. Some 1,200 invited...