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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
...Merritt Parkway scandal involved a real-estate man, G. LeRoy Kemp, who as the State's agent bought much of the land needed for right-of-way and who allegedly shared in some $86,000 of rakeoff commissions with two real-estate agents, Thomas N. Cooke of Greenwich and Samuel H. Silberman of Stamford. On the witness stand Mr. Cooke testified that Land Agent Kemp used to tip him off as to acreage the State wanted, that Cooke then arranged for the purchases and they split commissions of $32,814.92. Mr. Silberman testified to giving Kemp another...
Last week the U. S. got a new No. 1 weatherman-chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Appointed to succeed Willis Ray Gregg, who died last September, was Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer, U. S. N., an able, earnest meteorologist whose experiences include flying in Navy airplanes, dirigibles and racing balloons, taking part in the search for Amelia Earhart, furnishing weather information (from Lisbon) for the historic transatlantic flight of the NC-4. Quiet, matter-of-fact, Commander Reichelderfer likes dancing, music, an occasional cocktail, spends much time reading up on new developments in weather science...
Situated on a ridge of rock that rises above the Passaic, N. J. meadows is the suburban town of Rutherford. Rising above the dead level of contemporary U. S. poetry is William Carlos Williams, one of the town's busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment...
...N. Douglas Bush...