Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual last summer the gorgeous yacht Lyndonia dominated the crowded little harbor at Camden, Me. But for the first season in many years the yacht's owner, aging, ailing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, did not dominate the Camden social scene. He remained at home, out of sight. Steam was kept up for 24 hours a day; but the Lyndonia and her crew of 38 made only occasional trips to Portland, Publisher Curtis' birthplace, so that he might go to the dentist. Maine folk and summering Philadelphia socialites alike spoke kindly of "poor old Mr. Curtis...
...Toledo Roger Bresnahan, oldtime (1902-15) National League baseballer, onetime owner of the Toledo "Mud Hens," rated by John McGraw as all-time greatest major league catcher, took a $100-a-month position as guard at Toledo's workhouse...
Golfer Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., vice president and part owner of Atlanta Baseball & Amusement Corp. ("Crackers" baseball club) was appointed its temporary receiver. The club has lost money for the past three seasons, finishing successively fourth, sixth, seventh in Southern Association pennant races...
...story is fundamentally serious. The daughter of the owner of the Show Heat falls in love with a river gambler the dashing Gaylord Reveual playing opposite him in one of the Show Boat's melodramas, the role she would like in real life. Their marriage the alternate prosperity and poverty of a gambler's life, the disillusionment and the separation follow quickly. Still in love they meet on the old "Show Boat" many years after, as it lies against an old Mississippi wharf in the moonlight...
Died. William Alden Smith. 73. long-time (1907-19) U. S. Senator from Michigan, millionaire owner of the Grand Rapids Herald; of a heart attack; in Grand Rapids. Mich...