Word: russel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierpont (jailbreaker & murderer) who went with them meekly, suddenly pulled two guns when they tried to handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
Married. Albert Russel Erskine Jr., 25. Chicago advertising man, son of the Studebaker Corp. president who died by his own hand last summer (TIME, July 10); and Florence Meredith Howard, 24, showgirl; in Manhattan...
Year ago smart, genial Whitefoord Russel Cole's Louisville & Nashville applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reduction in coach fare from 3.6? per mi. to 2? A few Western roads (TIME, Oct. 23). Mobile & Ohio, struggling in receivership between two rivers and five competitors, and Atlanta & West Point R. R. followed suit. Meantime, the Southern was experimenting on branch lines with a 1½? coach fare. This line found that with base fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi...
Hold Your Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their...
...ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire by private wires. He has also an estate at Sands Point, L.I., and this year he bought the magnificent Miami villa of the late Albert Russel Erskine...