Word: tarrytown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the smaller, more flexible funds made bigger overall profits. A small ($2,000,000) company, Axe-Houghton Fund "B," run by a husband & wife team, Mr. & Mrs. Emerson Axe of Tarrytown, N.Y., led all other stock funds with a total value of $30,638 for the original...
...Hard Way. At eleven, Lew went east to the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. While his father made a strike at the U.V.X. mines in central Arizona, Lew was studying history and playing baseball at Amherst, trying to make up his mind what to do next. After one postgraduate year studying metallurgy at M.I.T., World War I decided...
...Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
...Agenda. In Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...
MacDonald also announced that John B. Ensign '46 of Eliot House and Tarrytown, N. Y., has been appointed manager for the 1947 season as the winner of the competition held this fall...