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Died. Frank Clinton Smythe, 59, night watchman at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania R. R. station. Princeton 1894 valedictorian, able civil engineer who chose watchman work instead of unemployment; of injuries when beaten by unidentified hoodlums while on duty; in Philadelphia. Said Mrs. Smythe, cousin of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam: "We are proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport, L. I. On the day The Flying Family left New York, Green Mountain Boy took off from Barre. It was refueled at Harbor Grace, N. F., roared out over the Atlantic with fuel enough for 37 hours. Two days passed, three days, four days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Races | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...Deep Pond and September, Agnes Leindorffs The Sketch Class and a marine by William Ritchell. A fortnight ago someone stole the Institute's Study of a Nude by the late William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. The Institute's secretary said that though it could not afford a night watchman, no one had ever taken anything before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stabbed at Prayers | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...Robert Lee Miller, 21, son of a Jacksonville, Fla. night watchman: by 4 & 2, his match with "Pete Miller" (Panaysti Milliau) 21, of Chicago in the final of the U. S. Public Links Golf Championship; at Louisville, Ky. Among Golfer Miller's rewards: a Kentucky colonelcy, as aide-de-camp to Lieut. Governor A. B. Chandler of Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...with his hands and pulled the other 8 ft. through the hole. Besides a head wound he suffered scorched hands, was in & out of the hospital for two years. The hot steel cauterized the wound, so there was no infection. Now he works for the same company as a watchman. There are no bad effects, except scars and 70% impairment of his left ear. BELA SMITH Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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