Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Checkerman Long, 24-year-old telegraph clerk, has long been a checker prodigy. At 15 he watched a national tournament knowingly, critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which defeated English invaders. Lacking competition in Toledo, he plays by mail with far-off experts. Once he had a postal game with an Australian which lasted more than a year, ended in a draw...
...Arthur Lee, Norwegian-born sculptor who recently contended in Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's competition for the Pioneer Woman and whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post...
...trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was denied them. After three hours, the bewildered Dreyfuss, as his own chief witness, spoke of the time he was losing while he was incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward anyone and my only desire is to work and live at peace with all the world." Justice Peters ordered him sent back to the asylum...
Died. John ("Old John") Pringle, of Los Angeles, $3-a-day cinema extra, father of Cinemactor John Gilbert in Los Angeles...
...chance or otherwise, the day after Col. Lindbergh inspected Packard products, old issue Packard stock went up 7¼ points on the New York exchange; new issue Packard stock rose 1⅞ points...