Word: milford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They sent out an eight-State alarm. At last in Milford, Conn., police appeared at a small Divine "heaven" where a Negro called "Simon Peter" attempted to bar their way. As they later remarked, they "roughed up Simon Peter a bit." One of them descended to the cellar, found Father Divine vainly seeking to "invisibilize" himself behind the furnace. "Peace!" he quavered. "I'll go with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine...
...match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points...
...death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer, Huntington Sheldon. Milford won the British open and amateur championships last year. Setzler's victory last week was not conclusive. He and Milford play again in London next April. After their second match, the man who has won the most games becomes world champion until challenged and defeated. If both...
...Yale's leading tutors are the brothers Samuel and Harris Rosenbaum, who learned their trade when they were in Sheffield Scientific School and have plied it profitably since their graduations in 1907 and 1908. The Rosenbaum staff divides its time between New Haven and nearby Milford School which the brothers founded as a preparatory academy in 1916. Rival Elm City School is headed by Nathan Francis of the class of 1902, who was a Yale instructor until 1912 when the University asked him to choose between his jobs. Tutor Francis also owns a preparatory school at Cheshire, Conn...
Married- Dr. Katsuma Dan, 29, youngest son of Japan's late, great Banker Baron Takuma Dan (Mitsui), who was assassinated by militarists (TIME, March 14, 1932); and Jean McNair Clark, 26, of Milford, Conn., his associate in biological research at the University of Pennsylvania; in Philadelphia...