Word: michelsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Vice-Admiral Andreas Michelsen, 62, retired Wartime commander of Germany's submarine fleet; in Fallingbostel, Germany. In his The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 he claimed that 146 vulnerable enemy vessels carrying U. S. citizens were not torpedoed for fear of U. S. wrath...
There was much of the usual magnificence. John P. Morgan's gardener, James S. Kelly, showed a wide border of giant tulips against a background of flowering dogwood. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm...
...Albert ("Whitey") Michelsen, cadaverous, spook-faced, 35-year-old marathoner: the Metropolitan A. A. U. 26-mile marathon in Hudson County...