Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfathers were a Chicago grain broker named Frank Pierce Frazier and Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, a Canadian capitalist who used to manage the Bank of Montreal and whose Lady is social matriarch of Nassau. At eleven, she struck the Sunday supplements as the centre of a scandalous financial row between her divorced parents, each of whom sought to prove the other unfit to be her custodian. Fight and notoriety continued until her father died...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, twice-defeated St. Mary's (of California) handed ambitious Texas Tech (pride of the Panhandle) its first defeat (20-to-13) after ten victories in a row...
...centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions...
Musicomedy find of the season is vivacious 20-year-old Mary Martin of Leave It to Me. A newcomer to Broadway, she has gladdened Bald Head Row and rear balcony alike with her spirited singing of My Heart Belongs to Daddy: While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet...
...against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley, at $17,000 a year-highest salary...