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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine, springy day in 1850 a gentleman named James Liddy, of Watertown, N. Y., went to a county fair in his surrey. It was a lousy fair and Mr. Liddy curled himself up on the seat of his surrey and went to sleep. When he awoke he felt remarkably refreshed, and he was smitten with an idea. He went home and forthwith invented the first bedsprings known...
...Time For Comedy (by S. N. Behrman; produced by Katharine Cornell and the Playwrights Co.) brought Katharine Cornell triumphantly back to Broadway after a two years' absence-in the first full comedy role of her career...
...Durham, N. C., Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, together with Husband James, donned cap and gown, marched in the centennial procession at Duke University which received its name and some $80,000,000 from Father James Buchanan Duke...
...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...
...need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...