Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Captain William R. Munroe of the Squalus board asked Witness Naquin what would have happened if such a device had been in use. Slowly and damningly, Oliver Naquin replied: "I believe such a device could have prevented this tragedy...
...Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game as seriously as Britons their cricket. One of the best croquet experts in the U. S. is Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific R. R...
Died. Dr. William Rothwell, 71, well-loved town character, who always paid the check at parties; of heart disease; in Pawtucket, R. I. His tombstone: a boulder inscribed ". . . This...
...department store basement of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Powel Crosley Jr. this week put his new midget automobiles on sale. First purchaser: Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. Box score for first day's sales: four coupes ($365), twelve sedans ($389), no trade...
...spraying Britain, from stations on the Continent, with frankly commercial plugs for British products. Go-getting head of I. B. C. is Leonard Frank Plugge, a sleek and portly gentleman who got himself elected to Parliament from Chatham in 1935. Captain Plugge (he was a Naval Reserve and R. A. F. man during the War) not long ago bought one of London's best addresses, the Leopold de Rothschild house in Park Lane, and equipped it with radio and television in every room. Another house of his in Park Lane has a telephone switchboard and 37 telephones, more than...