Word: phils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Larry Gaines. a splayfooted, rough-kneed, lazy blackamoor pugilist: a Leicester, England fight against Phil Scott, famed British heavyweight who had been training for four months, got knocked out in the second round...
Crazy Quilt is the sequel to Sweet & Low, presented earlier this season by famed Fannie Brice and her husband Billy Rose (TIME, Dec. 1). It is a great deal sweeter and not so low as its predecessor. Supporting Miss Brice in the fun-making are Phil Baker and his accordion, Ted Healy and his grotesque ''stooges" (comic assistants). There are also: Fannie's nimble-footed brother Lew, the excellent ballroom dancers Gomez & Winona, a pretty little girl named Ethel Norris who sings and dances, good music by Harry Warren. For once, a Jewish production has acquired...
...only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second in the 600-yd., which Phil Edwards, late of New York University, won for the fourth year in succession. Paul Keller of France did not even place in the 1,000-yd. From this point of view it was a fine evening for U. S. athletes...
...twelve years Guy Maier & Lee Pattison have held the title of world's best two-piano team (a few jazzists would wish to except Phil Ohman & Victor Arden) but they have kept their lives separate. They do most of their practicing apart, often stay at different hotels. If they should happen to eat together while traveling, Pianist Pattison would probably order oysters, Pianist Maier soup...
Allow me to call your attention to a similar political coincidence in which General Harris M. Plaisted was inaugurated as Governor of Maine in 1881 at Augusta, Me., and that in 1911, also 30 years later, as in Phil's case, Frederick W. Plaisted, the son of General Harris M. Plaisted, was sworn in as governor of the same State of Maine...