Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Edna Bes,. 33, English actress (There's Always Juliet), and Herbert Marshall, 43, film actor: a daughter; in London. To her first husband, Seymour Beard, Edna Best bore twin sons...
...side he took his master's degree at Oberlin. His call to Western Reserve as assistant professor of political science resulted largely from his reputation for using the library. That summer he married Eve Dall (no kin to the President's son-in-law), who bore him twin sons, now aged 8. At Western Reserve he is still well remembered as the professor who required his classes to read the New Republic when that polite journal of parlor liberalism was considered Red. In 1919-20 crime suddenly engulfed Cleveland. Professor Moley resigned from Western Reserve to take charge...
...insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering...
Died. Jules Piccard, 93, longtime (1883-1920) University of Basel chemistry professor, father of Stratospherist Auguste Piccard and his twin Chemist Jean Piccard of Wilmington, Del.; in Lausanne...
...Federal Trade Commission which has broader powers. Author & Journalist pointed out the adroit wording of the publishers' provocative letters to Lottie, also called attention to the major catch in the publishers' schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing Twin were to be issued. In the cases which Author & Journalist has investigated, 100 copies were usually bound, enough for the author and his or her friends. Average profit to the unscrupulous publisher: $200 per sucker...