Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixed crowd jammed the three sides of Mussey's amphitheatre on Chicago's South Wabash Avenue one night last week to watch two men in dinner jackets and soft shirts play for the pocket billiard (pool) championship of the world. "Quiet Please" signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel...
There is very little available material on Professor Abbott's early years. He was born, according to Who's Who, in Kokomo, Indiana on December 28, 1869. His undergraduate memories center around Wabash College, which graduated him at the age of twenty-three. From that date he studied and taught at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, Oxford, and Kansas,--until he was found and hired by Yale in 1908. There, in 1917, he gained wide scholastic attention. He had, for some time, been intrigued with the notions of the sociological historians. He had, for some time, been laboring with 350 years...
...organized ambitiously last winter to raise $100,000 for an outdoor Temple of Music to be built near the Fair grounds (TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned and the $25,000 set aside for concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps...
...Wabash College Sc.D...
...next thrust himself into the picture with a plan for a semicircular belt system connecting New England and Baltimore, to distribute Midwestern products to seaboard. This again stepped on too many toes. He was ordered to sell his interest in the Wabash (now in receivership) and Lehigh Valley, which he did, to the Pennsylvania, at $23,000,000 clear profit...