Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week's was his first personal appearance before a large audience. Like every smart entertainer, Johnny had a less brilliant but by no means dull, companion in his "act," his twin brother Jimmy. Precocious Johnny and normal Jimmy put on their performance at Manhattan's Babies Hospital. Manager was Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, jolly assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Impresario was Professor Frederick Tilney, learned director of research at the Neurological...
...Walter S. Gifford and Sewell Avery. Today Little Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward Jr., aged 3, and twin sons born last March during the banking holiday. From his spacious Manhattan apartment on Fifth Avenue he has a good view of the Metropolitan Museum and a fine vista of a successful career. Last week General Johnson genially patted him on the back: "His place in NRA will be hard...
...Tibbett had twin sons by his first wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study. When rich & famed, Tibbett got a divorce. His present wife, Jennie, had three sons by her first husband, John Clark Burgard, San Francisco broker and sportsman...
Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...
...flying boat was a twin-motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance...