Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the game last week stepped a new player who, instead of saving up the express ace, played it as his first and only card. He was Philip Henry Philbin Jr., youthful, debonair son of a Colorado hotelman, who learned the aviation business as a $1-a-year assistant to President Harris ("Pop") Hanshue of Western Air Express, later headed Mid-Continent Air Express. Last week he announced Air Express Corp. ready to operate a daily 17 to 18-hr. service between New York and Los Angeles, exclusively for express. First flights...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...Hopes (by Romney Brent; Bela Blau. producer). From Romney Brent, a mad little player, could well be expected a mad little play. Pomposity is a Brent specialty, and the name of his heroine, an extremely fey matron, keys the whole comedy-Clytemnestra Hope...
YEATS (W.B.) The Player Queen...
University of Pennsylvania and worked his way through college as a semiprofessional baseball player. He won his M.D. degree, saved enough money to go to Heidelberg where he helped pay his tuition as a singing waiter in a Braukeller. He was always more interested in chemistry than medicine. Back in the U. S. he stewed up something on the future Mrs. Barnes's kitchen range. It was Argyrol, the silver compound that serves many purposes of silver nitrate without its burn...