Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tired out by the longest hockey game on record (2 hr. 44 min.3 1 to 0 against the Boston Bruins) the Toronto Maple Leafs knew they had one chance in the first game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, against the New York Rangers. That was to make enough goals in the first period to win. The Rangers guessed that if they could pile up a lead in the first period, Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...
...squirearchy of Long Island, no gentleman resides more snugly than Col. Henry Stanley Todd of "The Priory," Dix Hills, Huntington. Onetime president of Universal Turbine Co., a Red Cross and Intelligence Division worker during the War, he is tall, grey-mustached and goateed, a benignant neighbor to Huntington villagers. In the evenings he is fond of calling in his Negro servants for some music-they on their guitars, Col. Todd on his drums. And Col. Todd is by no means an obscure country gentleman. The Pope knows of him. So does the Bishop of Liverpool, the King of the Belgians...
...vice president of Michigan Alkali Co.; James Inglis, chairman of American Blower Corp.; Tracy W. McGregor, Detroit philanthropist; James Thayer McMillan, president of Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., vice president of the Detroit Free Press; Peter J. Monaghan, Detroit lawyer; James Stansbury Holden, president of the Detroit Real Estate Board; Stanley Reed, Washington lawyer; Robert Perry Shorts of Saginaw, Mich. Not counting Messrs. Chrysler, Sloan and Brown (who have offices in Manhattan) there are no New Yorkers on the board. Henry Ford, while not a director, helped the new bank by making a deposit...
...article by Stanley Walker, describing the policemen in New York, deserves attention because of the naivete of the author. According to him some policemen in the overpopulated city are dishonest; some are gentlemen, most are human. Yet the disappointment which the reader hay have, having read this, will be lost in a maelstrom of laughter after completing a letter by someone who was insulted because a freshman at Yale said that his college has produced few great men in this century. This someone has written a biting invective on the lack of merits of Harvard graduates. Although it is slightly...