Word: olcott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Linnea stitched up two dresses for her sisters, sucked her last lollipop, quietly lay down and died. "Chronic malnutrition killed her," said Dr. George Potts Olcott Jr., Assistant Essex County Medical Examiner. "The autopsy performed showed no reason for starvation. Her condition was perfect but she just wouldn...
...American Association of Variable Star Observers, which now has 400 members in many parts of the world, was founded in 1911 by William T. Olcott, of Norwich, Connecticutt, and by the late Edward C. Pichering of the Observatory...
...Father Thomas might wish to see his red-haired boy get along, he could not have wangled the presidency for Son Edward against the will of a directorate which includes Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (Sprague Warner & Co.), Edwin Augustus Potter Jr. (Guaranty Trust Co. of New York), Henry C. Olcott (Skelly Oil), James MacHenry Hopkins (Camel...
Other musical passengers were less reticent. Conductor Bernardino Molinari was on his way to San Francisco to play several new compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler...
...plough by night. Just a year ago Hudson River Night Line, famed as all night lines are in many a locker room tale, ploughed right into receivership. Last week Hudson River Day Line (no corporate kin) ploughed into receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain the usual bank loan to tide it over the winter months when its big white steamers are laid...