Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tournament, there soon predominated: The Greentrees-a Long Island four with James C. Cooley, oldtimer, at No. 2 and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney at No. 3. The Midwests-with W. Seymour ("Shorty") Knox of Buffalo at No. 1, Barney Balding and William Blair of Chicago in the middle, Nelson Talbott of the poloing Dayton, Ohio, Talbotts at Back. The Old Aikens-the college team, three parts Yale, one part Harvard. They have played together for years. Their first teacher was Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., mother and coach of Internationalist Hitchcock. Her younger son, Frank Hitchcock used...
...Trick" layouts, a special testimonial issue, salesman's "thermometers" in the office and other features of the hard-driving Annenberg technique, did not bring in the business as fast as required. Rapid changes of advertising managers did the magazine no great good among agency men. Dark-haired, resourceful Nelson Revitt Perry, formerly with Curtis publications, has now held down the job for three years...
...Washington one day last week journeyed the four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed...
...magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...