Word: stampedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first...
That morning on the Theatre's stage President Conant. flanked by President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell and by Harvard's oldest living graduate, a 95-year-old Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then...
Still another suggestion was that the producers had arbitrarily boosted the price to put a quietus on a new form of platinum trading. In Manhattan two months ago a syndicate headed by Alexander Eisemann & Co., assisted by International Platinum Corp., began issuing warehouse receipts against platinum. Buying platinum at wholesale...
Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away...
As automobiles (about 180 per hour on weekdays) reach this section, they are halted by police for a rigorous inspection of tires, brakes, lights, windshield wipers, mirrors, signal devices, loads. The driver is inspected for sobriety. Those who are let through are given a card stamped with the time of...