Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To William Henry Vanderbilt. president of the Rhode Island State Senate ; and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; twin daughters (7 Ib. 6 oz. and 5 Ib. 11 oz.) as forecast last month by X-ray (TIME, Feb. 16); in Manhattan's York House, socialite maternity hospital. Names: Elsie French and Edith Hyde...
...Roosevelt Field, N. Y. is a hangar which for two years was always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which...
...correspondingly accurate stories about the son's college life, and finally asking to cash a check for $25. The doctor, completely taken in, did so, but the check was returned from the bank, marked "no such account." Of course, by that time, the swindler had moved away from the Twin Cities...
...Author. Maxwell Bodenheim, 35, blond, squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class. His poetry is on a par with his prose. Other books: Replenishing Jessica, Ninth Avenue, Georgie...
...International public opinion will no longer tolerate these twin scourges," continued the Stimson note. "Unless they are abolished . . . [there] will result . . . final alienation of the friendly feelings which the American Government and people have entertained for Liberia...