Word: urquhart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency...
...thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
Navy: Bill Drissler, stroke; Urquhart, 7; Omohundro, 6; Moore, 5; Nesworthy, 4; Werrenworth, 3; Swords, 2; Schley, bow; and Turner...
Moore, rowing 4, is a Regimental Commander in the N.T.S., Urquhart was captain of the Yale Varsity in 1933, Omohundro and Moore rowed with the Navy, Drissler, Werrenworth and Schley rowed with Cornell, Swords rowed with the Harvard 150-lb. crew in 1928, and Nesworthy rowed on the American International Crew...
Swords rowed on the Crimson 150 lb, crew in 1928, Urquhart was captain of the Yale Varsity in 1933, Omohundro and Moore rowed with the Navy, Drissler, Werrenwrath and Schley rowed with Cornell, and Nesworthy rowed with the American International crew...