Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been my experience that William J. Bingham, the present athletic director at Harvard, is held in the highest esteem not only by the athletic directors of the other colleges in the east, but by the chief executives as well. He is a gentleman and a sportsman who has made the most of his opportunities in a position which could be termed anything but a bed of roses. He has seen fit to appoint Dick Harlow head coach at Harvard and from the standpoint of getting one who knows football from the ground up and can get the most...
...over Florida's Biscayne Bay one day last week flew an airplane towing two gliders. In one was Sportsman Pilot Harold Bowen, in the other Warren Edwin Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), co-holder of the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute...
Died. John Wanamaker Jr.. 45, sportsman, clubman, member of Pershing's War-time staff, grandson of the late Store Founder John Wanamaker; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...prudently absented himself for four days. When he returned to his apartment street fighting was still going on. Police raided the house and found Luis Quintanilla and four revolvers. In Spain if a man has three revolvers, shotguns or rifles in his home he may conceivably be a sportsman or a collector. If he has four he is plotting against the government...
Divorced. Michael Farmer, 31, Irish sportsman; by Film Actress Gloria Swanson, 33; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was quarrelsome, abusive at the mention of U. S. politics; when she tried to discuss a radio speech of President Roosevelt he told her "she didn't know anything about politics and wasn't good at anything else." He was Miss Swanson's fourth husband, father of a two-year-old daughter, Michele Bridget...