Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
This Dr. Edwin H. Coward, superintendent of the Atlantic County Hospital, knew last week when he fondly took Bob White, seven months old, to the Atlantic City airport. He put Bob White in a plane. It rose, swooped up and down. Bob White cowered. The plane came to earth. Bob White clambered out of the cockpit. Men chirruped at him; they whistled; they called. And for the first time in his life Bob White heard sounds. Delighted he yelped answers. No congenital deafness was his. More delighted was Dr. Coward. He cherishes Bob White, finely bred grandson of President Coolidge...
William Tatem Tilden II can beat Fritz Mercur, onetime Longwood Bowl champion. So, too, can Helen Wills, as she did in an exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
...head of International Paper is 43-year-old Archibald Robertson Graustein, Harvard graduate, onetime Boston lawyer. Lawyer Graustein rose to sudden fame by so guiding the affairs of the insolvent Riordon Co. (Canadian pulp concern) that bondholders emerged after four years without loss. This extraordinary achievement took him to International Paper in 1924 as president. One of his first acts was to buy the Riordon Co., merge it with International Paper. His directorships, besides New England Power, include the Corn Exchange Bank, Missouri Pacific Railroad, American Surety Co., Manville Jenckes...
...Youngstown, Ohio) approved consolidation with the smaller Steel & Tubes, Inc., (Cleveland, Ohio), for these reasons: Republic can furnish Steel & Tubes with strip steel and pipe, developing its coal and ore reserves, bringing plant operation near capacity. Assets of the two companies total about $200,000,000. Steel & Tubes, Inc., rose from the business of the Wick family of Youngstown and Cleveland. An astute, enterprising Wick is Myron A., now President of Steel & Tubes...