Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with his nephew, President James Kelly Giffen of Knoxville College (Tenn.). -In South Africa last September, Missionary Myron Taylor was killed by a lion (TIME, Sept. 28). Rev. John Walter Vinson, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, was last week kidnapped, stabbed, decapitated by bandits who had looted his chapel and burned part of the town of Wansjiagieh...
Died. Rev. John Walter Vinson, 50, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, brother of President Robert Ernest Vinson of Western Reserve University; stabbed and decapitated by bandits who had kidnapped him after looting the mission and the town of Wangjiagieh...
...Sunday-supplement lore, the Hope diamond is "accursed." When the McLeans' firstborn, Vinson Walsh McLean, was killed by an automobile, gum-chewers promptly accepted the tragedy as further proof of the diamond's "curse...
Best of the lady skaters was graceful, smiling Maribel Y. Vinson of Winchester, Mass., who executed her figures so well that she was awarded the women's senior championship for the fourth year in succession. An able performer in the junior men's tournament was 10-year-old Robin Lee of Minneapolis. In the senior tournament Roger E. Turner of Milton, Mass. won for the fourth year in succession. Mrs. D. F. Secord and Ferrier Martin, of the New York Skating Club, won the waltzing championship but lost in the dance tournament to Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard...
...William ("Wild Bill") Mehlhorn, muscular golfer who walks like a sailor and sometimes plays like one: first prize of $5.000 on the windy, many-bunkered, palm-plumed La Gorce course at Miami Beach, beating Horton Smith, who got $2.500, by one stroke. ¶ Slim Maribel Vinson, 17, sophomore at Radcliffe College, in an orange satin suit trimmed with black fur: the national amateur figure skating championship, at Providence...