Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including Countess Dorothy di Frasso, Marino Bello (once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow). and Richard E. Pulley, cousin of Anthony Eden-put out of Los Angeles in the three-master Met ha Nelson for a month or so of shark-hunting. Master of the ship was German Captain Robert Hoffman. In the crew were several Jews. At San Jose, Guatemala, two of the crew jumped ship, got passage back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny]." Waiting the return of Captain Hoffman & Party...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
More nostalgic than any memoir, however, is The Old Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...
...only guest speaker will be Neal O'Hara '14, but there will also be speeches by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Richard C. Harlow, Head Coach; Robert L. Green, Jr. '89, Captain; and Torbert H. Macdonald '40, Captain-elect...
...response of the community, the University faculty, and the Law School to our appeal for funds has been especially gratifying," said Robert E. Lane '39, chairman of the Refugee Committee, last night...