Word: navin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to make a correction of a serious error in your report on the death of John William Navin Sullivan in TIME, Aug. 23, at top of p. 26, since your statement attaches an undeserved stigma on his family. Mr. Sullivan was under my care at the London Hospital shortly before his death, when he was suffering from complete paralysis of both legs. But it was not due to or associated with syphilis, nor was the clinical picture hardly suggestive of syphilis...
...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs's loyalty to the Tigers, offered to introduce him to Navin. When...
...Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
When Wheelmaker Kelsey died, Mr. Briggs took over his stock and a year ago, with the death of Mr. Navin, he became the Tigers' sole owner...