Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sending you the true facts of the case, and a friendly warning to avoid running afoul of the other interested parties in this quadrilateral: namely, Professor Morison himself, and Mrs. Paul Hammond, a good sailor, too, who planned the larder for the expedition, and accompanies...
...Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish Eve Curie (Madame Curie) prepared lectures on scientific subjects for the Information Ministry...
Married. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, trainer of Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen, operator of a Manhattan gymnasium, where he molds Paul Whiteman and other rotund celebrities into prettier shapes; and Mrs. Ethel Colten; both for the second time; in South Bend...
...early developed a talent for whittling ingenious gadgets. After studying engineering at the University of Minnesota, he left with $85 in his jeans, grubbed along as manual training instructor, toy designer, vaudevillian, journalist. In 1906 he married a Miss Alma Raymond, with his own deft hands built their St. Paul home and every stick of furniture in it, took a rattlebang honeymoon trip through Europe on a motorcycle...
Back in St. Paul young Stout, long a worshipper of such oldtime airmen as Octave Chanute and Glenn Curtiss, waded ear-deep into aviation. In 1922, heartened by the success of his crude "Batwing," he drafted plans for the first all-metal commercial plane. To some 100 U. S. industrialists went Inventor Stout, asked them for $1,000 each. Said he: "You may never get your money back, but you'll have $1,000 worth...