Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WATSON: AGRARIAN REBEL-C. Vann Woodward-Macmillan...
Other Sophomores threaten to rise to the level their classmates have attained. Mason Fernald, winner of the 110-yard high hurdles in the Oxford-Cambridge Meet, has not had the same success on the winter boards. Shields and Day, Yale Sophomores, have succeeded in dethroning Donovan and Watson of Dartmouth while Fernald has not fulfilled expectations by graduating to that rank. A slow starter, he may come into his own over the longer distance outdoors. Fred MacIsaac is another Sophomore who should strengthen Crimson track. In the B.A.A. Games he cleared 13 feet...
...disposals his estate will have to pay inheritance taxes on only $5,000,000 worth of art objects. Just when the auctioneer's hammer will begin to fall was not stated, because after three months of work Mr. Hearst's agent, Manhattan Dealer Macdermid Parish-Watson, is nowhere near the end of cataloguing the collection. Hearst papers especially hinted at museum bequests by announcing that their boss meant to "share" his art with the nation...
...possessions. Housed at San Simeon, at Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse. What is actually there is a 12th-Century Spanish monastery, in 10,000 boxes...
When Billy Watson (born Isaac Levy) retired from the burlesque business he had made his pile. At 72 he still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust...