Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Robins finally reached the White House last week. Last September the Chicago reformer set out from Manhattan to keep a luncheon appointment with President Hoover, only to disappear on the way. In November he was found living the unshaven life of a mountaineer in a North Carolina hamlet (TIME, Nov. 28). Physicians talked of amnesia. Last week Reformer Robins & wife not only lunched with the President but dined, spent the night...
...minutes to make four trips. The fraction-.21 sec.-was about the time he wasted steering back onto the track when, on his last run, his sled skidded at the last curve and one runner slid over the edge. Second and third places went to his brothers, Curtis and Raymond...
Next day the four-man sleds were trucked to the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in softening weather. Six other teams in the four-man championship would doubtless have been pleased if all the Stevenses-Hubert, Curtis, Raymond and Paul-had clambered onto the same sled. Instead, Hubert, Curtis and Raymond each drove a sled of his own, placed 1, 2, 3 in the first two heats. Hubert Stevens made his first run in 1:47.79, breaking the course record Curtis had set a week earlier. His second run-.01 sec. slower-gave him a scant 5 sec. lead...
...chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac, N. Y., civil engineer; Eddie Eagan, famed amateur boxer; Baron Walther von Mumm...
...Paul, surgeons took an 8½-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract...