Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Preston Johnson Gibson, 57, famed oldtime society playboy, son of Louisiana's late Senator Randall Lee Gibson, nephew of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White; of heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties...
...annual University ski face, scheduled o he held one Sherbourne Trail tomorrow morning, has been in definitely postponed, if was announced by Manager Preston last night...
...annual University ski race, scheduled to be held on Sherbourne Trail tomorrow morning, has been in difficulty postponed, it was announced by Manager Preston last night...
...tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized one of conflict between love and patriotism. Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife Nora (Barbara Stanwyck) are assing in the park when he is summoned to his post as commandant of the Irish Citizens Army. Nora, who has already tried to keep him at home by destroying notification of his commission, sees him out with bitter apprehension...
...Preston R. Clark '39 is captain of the team, and S. Alden Fendieton '38 is manager...