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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class of 1935 was whooping with elation last week, just about to be sent home. They fought the sort of open, spectacular game cinema producers think is war. Cordial was Der Führer to another distinguished guest, the Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, pointedly snubbed by II Duce...
...held out this year), finally succumbed-but not exclusively-to the Kellogg Co. (Corn Flakes), which also has contracts with the University of Oklahoma, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Nebraska and Fordham. Michigan State has signed up with the Olds division of General Motors and the University of Iowa with Brown & Williamson (Sir Walter Raleigh) Tobacco Corp. For the third year Humble Oil & Refining Co. of Houston will have a monopoly of Southwest Conference games. On the Pacific Coast, Associated Oil Co. ("Let's Get Associated") began its twelfth and biggest broadcasting season, during which it will sponsor about 100 "sportcasts...
...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
Left. By Author-Playwright Sir James Barrie; an estate of ?167,694; in London. To Actress Elisabeth Bergner he left ?2,000 for "the best performance ever given in any play of mine (The Boy David)." To his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Cannan, he left ?1,000 and a life annuity of ?600. To his adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left ?6,000 and half the residuary estate. The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to ?30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady...
...last Jockey Donoghue kept his weight down to 110 lb. Lately a contract rider for Sir Victor Sassoon, owner of Shanghai's ill-fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby...