Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction that children wasted their time learning things in school which they could master in a few months after growing up. His father was a painter, his mother a pianist. When he was three years old, John began to draw horses and fanciful animals; when he was seven, his father started him to work with oils. He trotted for miles over the Essex countryside following farm horses, watching the jounce and ripple of muscle, the play of light on sweaty hide...
Sons of an employe of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the Mauchs were born in 1924. Billy is the older by ten minutes. Their mother, delighted with her product, had them taught to dance before they went to school. By the time they were seven, the little Mauchs were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat...
...trained head coaches. Last week, the newest Washington-trained head coach made his debut as such in the first important event of the eastern rowing season. He was Tom Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace Charles Whiteside whose crews, though they beat Yale four times out of seven in four-mile races at New London, did poorly in shorter races. The event was the one and three quarter mile varsity race in the Compton Cup Regatta, on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...
Marietta (Ellis MacDonald), Rutgers (Chuck Logg). Logg was at Princeton for seven years until succeeded in 1932 by able Gordon Sikes, Princeton...
Succeeding Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard, Foxhunter Stahlman brings a dynamic, self-confident personality to the ANPA's presidency. He broke a strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard...