Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Commander Howard M. Menzel played Alphonse to Lieutenant Oswald Jacoby's Gaston last night as the two contrived to smother Bunks Burditt and Hugh Hyde in three rubbers of bridge played at PBH before a crowd of some 50 kibitizers...
Lieutenant (jg) Oswald Jacoby, one of the "Four Horsemen" of bridge, and Lieutenant (jg) Howard M. Menzel, former Harvard English professor, will play their trumps against George "Bunks" Burditt '44, and Hugh Hyde '44, basketball and Student Council teammates. The purpose of the informal battle is to stimulate friendship between undergraduates and the Naval trainees in the Yard...
...powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
Missing this year from the 27-team entry list were Donor Vanderbilt (who had twice been on the winning team), Oswald Jacoby and the late Jimmy Maier (members of the famed Four Aces), several other hardy competitors. So the team to beat was a young foursome headed by a frail little honey blonde, 31-year-old Helen Martin Sobel...
Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum...