Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not help but appreciate the editorial from a St. Joseph newspaper that Mr. Wadlow showed me. In substance it mentioned the fact that Lindbergh could not stand the strain of the public and the publicity and, to avoid it, finally went to England where he could be more secluded. But, the editorial added, Lindbergh was not subjected to the same type of public attention that Robert Wadlow is. He (Robert) whenever in public, is gaped at, is always surrounded by people. But with all this, he maintains a pleasant and friendly disposition...
Among those who saw the last of Republican Madrid was Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon...
...college and Juilliard School graduate, she has been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long...
Founder of the League two years ago was a tall, gaunt Anglican, Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott, 54, vicar of swank St. Michael's Church in London. Vicar Elliott is England's most famed "Radio Parson," has been longer on the British air-seven and a half years-than any other churchman. His League, however, did not begin piling up memberships until he, another Anglican, a Baptist and a Congregationalist vowed themselves to Peace at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. Then, like other Englishmen with a cause in their hearts, they wrote...
Other groups from St. Louis and Indianapolis will join the special Harvard train which leaves Chicago Thursday noon and arrives in New Orleans Friday morning...