Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first...
...good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs's loyalty to the Tigers, offered to introduce him to Navin. When...
When Wheelmaker Kelsey died, Mr. Briggs took over his stock and a year ago, with the death of Mr. Navin, he became the Tigers' sole owner...
Because the Redskins, highly popular on the road, have been so thoroughly ignored at home that their owner, Washington Laundryman George Preston Marshall, next season plans to move them home to the capital, professional football's No. 1 game of the year will be played in New York City...
...Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building, Mme Gaveau, shouted furious protests from...