Word: ruppert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...outsider was admitted to Col. Jake Ruppert's office in his big red brick brewery, but Manhattan newshawks knew what went on inside. Most specific was Reporter Rud Rennie in the Herald Tribune...
From Admiral Byrd's S. S. Jacob Ruppert at 68° South Latitude, 124° West Longitude: "This morning we picked up our first penguins. . . . The cry 'Penguins' brought men to the rail from all parts of the ship. Many jests were cheerfully flung at these merry creatures. It is possible they understood. After one or two looks at this amazing vessel . . . they hastily dropped down on their bellies and with their flippers working like connecting rods scuttled away. . . . Their cheerful industry offered this consolation. Where in the whole world is there a creature with a harder...
...believed to be oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...