Word: thorp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenants' table in Apartment 4 C. The chief tenant was Eugene John Reed, 47, who was once a partner in an investment banking house in Denver. His co-tenants were Chester A. Arthur Jr.,* 33-year-old grandson of the 21st President of the U. S., and Dunham Thorp, onetime editor of a literary magazine in California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left his brokerage business in Denver and went to the Pacific Coast where...
...home on Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass., Miss Alice A. Thorp, granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was entertaining visitors when she heard footsteps above. Fluttering upstairs, Miss Thorp peeked into a bedroom just in time to see a closet door close softly. She tugged it open. Out of the closet scuttled a scared prowler to jump through the window, vanish...
...such thing as a Philadelphia "school." A bleak hospital room with red door ajar was called The Gate of Heaven by Artist Wayne Martin. Henry Cooper had a stooped oldster wheeling a cart through a narrow Paris street. A gingerbread corner store with bright green shades by Grace Thorp Gomberling was typical of Philadelphia's outskirts. Leon Kelly's Interior of a Slaughter House showed two men dwarfed by a large gory carcass...
...from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that the Senate Commerce Committee, on which sat Mississippi's junior Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, was considering the appointment of Dr. Willard Thorp as an expert for the Department of Commerce, Clipper Bilbo pricked up his large ears. When he learned that Dr. Thorp had once registered as a Republican while at Amherst, he dropped his shears and paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about to give...
Died. Edward J. ("Ed") Thorp, 48, famed football and basketball authority, referee last season of the Columbia-Stanford, Yale-Harvard and Pennsylvania-Cornell football games; of cerebral hemorrhage following apoplexy; in Port Chester...