Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serials spotted in the morning or afternoon to amuse housewives, and to push cereals, headache remedies, tooth paste, floor polish, cosmetics, etc. for 19 sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous authors in the names of Adman Frank Hummert...
...Jacob Ruppert, aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
...urge lifting the embargo. A rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...
Married. Brian Grover, 37, British engineer, and his wife, Elena, 36; for the second time; in London. Last November, when he wanted to rejoin his Russian bride, Grover was unable to get a Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...
Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...