Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif. Marjorie Wetherell decided not to marry her fiancé, Charles Rufus Baker. To save her embarrassment Fiance Baker suggested that she go ahead with the wedding and he would appear to jilt her by not showing up. Last week she was suing him. Reason: he had broken his promise, married her at the wedding...
...LESSER ANTILLES CASE-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Nine castaways, at sea in an open boat, believe two of their number have been murdered. Assigned to the case, Lieutenant Valcour meets another death, must go to the wreck to pursue his investigation, becomes both judge and executioner...
Appointed last week by President Roosevelt to the U. S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors for 1934-35 were Presidents Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid of Southern California; Kenneth Charles Morton Sills of Bowdoin; Marion Luther Brittain of Georgia Technology; Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh; Ralph Earle of Worcester Polytechnic; William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown and Dean Harry Ellsworth Clifford of Harvard Engineering School...
Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie...
...greatly appreciate your treatment of my lawsuit against Rufus Cutler Dawes in TIME, July 51. headlined "Fair Without Pants" in the Theatre department. It just occurred to me an original valentine I wrote to a woman friend last February might amuse your readers as "The Big Bad Wolf" has since become prominent. If you wish to, you are welcome...