Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Racquet Club himself, Phipps couldn't very well enlist the services of Pierre, the club pro. But he had hired Bill ("Blondy") Standing, who was John Hay Whitney's private pro, and practiced on Whitney's private court (which cost $250,000 to build) at Roslyn...
Died. George E. Dietrich, 53, one of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm officers who swindled the firm out of about $11,000,000 in the late '30s; of leukemia; in Roslyn, L.I. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich (born Musica) worked with President F. Donald Coster (real name: Philip Musica) and two other brothers in the firm in the two-year embezzlement, but ratted on his brothers in court, escaped with a 2½-year prison sentence...
Pitfalls of Drink. In Roslyn, N.Y., a stranger in a bar handed Otto Steih Jr. one end of a leash, excused himself for a moment. Still waiting: Otto and the raccoon...
Pastel Thinking. Last year Los Alamos got a new superintendent, F. Robert Wegner, who gave it to them with bells on. Puckish Bob Wegner, 49, a man with shock-white hair and a youthful spirit, had once started a near-rebellion in Roslyn, Long Island, when he set his students to baking nut bread to teach them arithmetic (TIME, March 21, 1938). He went to Los Alamos from the Navy, where, as a lieutenant commander, he had bossed radio and rocket schools...
...ROSLYN M. RICE, O.T.R. Chief Occupational Therapist