Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce, after piloting his own plane over the troops, had suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt a foreign correspondent, was expelled from the country on 24 hours' notice. The corrected story ran that Benito Mussolini, long suffering from stomach ulcers and farsightedness, had finally swallowed his vanity and been fitted for spectacles...
First to round the world by commercial airline was the New York World-Telegram's, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins (1936; 181 days...
...Grover Whalen has lost his leanness, but remains in top physical trim. He diets, neither drinks nor smokes, rides a lot. He has a country place at Roslyn, L. I., a town house at 48 Washington Mews-an alley off Fifth Avenue near Washington Square where Manhattan rich used to stable their horses and now like to live themselves...
Married. George Fisher Baker Jr., 22, son & grandson of Manhattan's late great First National bankers; and Frances Drexel Munn, 21, Astor and Biddle descendant; at Roslyn...
...Roslyn Heights, N. Y. The World Almanac's Editor Eastman Irvine promises no immediate change, although he hopes a brand-new Almanac cover will celebrate next year's World's Fair. He disclaims intentions of accuracy for his map, says it should be considered no more than a trade-mark...