Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spencer. West Va...
...Frank Brangwyn when he was 16 and 17. tried commercial illustrating on his return to the U. S. Of this period he says, "The general idea was that I didn't eat regularly." During the War he got a job painting camouflage in the shipyards at Newport News, Va. For the last ten years he has lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial in 1926, can remember with amusement that...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, 78, widow of New York's famed banker and subway promoter who left an estate of $135,164,000 in 1928; after a heart attack; in the mansion her husband built at Livingston, Va., where his father was a tailor...
...average U. S. professional golfer begins his career at the age of 26, earns $2,800 a year and expects to retire at 55. This pertinent information was brought to light last week by Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., which queried 3,500 professionals. The youngest was 19, the oldest 66. The richest has reaped an average of $11,500 yearly, the poorest $1,068. Less successful as investors than as breadwinners, the golfers reported they had lost $11,000,000, or over $3,000 per man. Three out of four readily admitted that financial worries hurt their...
...Words, Tea for Two, The Lovebug will Bite You and Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn, they will settle down in a five-room cottage at Charlottesville, Va., where Franklin will go to the University of Virginia Law School. If the light-hearted scenario continues as it has begun, they should live happily ever afterward...