Word: tarrytown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile...
Girls Schooled. Twice-knighted* Cassity E. Mason, principal of Miss Mason's School at Tarrytown-on-Hudson', N. Y., last week announced flying as a new study for her girls next autumn. No other girls' school is known to offer such a course. Director of instruction will be Roland Harvey Spaulding,* Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at New York University and head of the Curtiss Flying Service ground school at that university. Proclaimed Miss Mason: "All pupils at all times will be accompanied by a chaperon...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week wiped the village of Eastview off the map of New York, by outright purchase of that once flourishing Colonial hamlet on the outskirts of Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations...
Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown...
...famed remark about preferring to be first in a little Iberian village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown bank. But to become a Tarrytown...