Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Townsend Ludington, socialite of Philadelphia, $8,000 might be the price of a small cabin cruiser such as he sails on Biscayne Bay. For his young brother Nicholas ("Nikko") Saltus Ludington it might buy a few new mounts for his large stable of hunters. For either brother, it would be hardly more than pin money. But the $8,073.61 profit which showed on a balance sheet upon Brother Townsend's desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger...
...Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...George Townsend Adee, Manhattan...
Because the late Dr. William T. Brigham, director of physical education at Harvard University, took measurements of some 2,000 Harvard students between 1870 and 1880, it has been possible by measuring later students to discover a distinct change in size, an evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate anthropology student, revealed results of his study of measurements of Harvard men, including figures for 400 pairs of fathers and sons-first such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height...
Score--Yale '34. 4; Harvard '34, 2. Goals--Brines, Levan, Lessig, Ed Jones, Payne 2. Substitutes--Brown, Seligman, Hammond, Patton, Pearcy, Earle, Vernon, Robbins and Smith; Harvard, Fields, Hosapple, Wilbur, Carroll, Topalian, Reed, Townsend and Johns. Referee--Reed. Time--Two 30m. periods...