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...their memoirs. It was little more than two years ago that the son of a village druggist in Maine first sent his smooth young voice floating out to the enraptured ladies and envious gentlemen of the radio audience. Yet already, longlipped, wavy-blonde-haired Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee of Westbrook, Me., the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, and the Villa Vallee, Manhattan, has passed so far into sentimental history that he and his managers consider the time ripe to put his autobiography on sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swiss Bass | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

These eight people constituted the Salvation Army's first invasion of the U. S. Only one was alive for last week's golden anniversary: Field-Major Emma Westbrook, 86, onetime corps officer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Last week she went down to the Battery to help the Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Field-Major Emma | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rankings | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Westbrook, a junior at Howard College, called police after the shooting and surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shooting Story | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Andover team comes with a record, of two defeats, at the hands of the Dean Academy and Westbrook nines. It is reputedly stronger, however, than at any other time in the year with the whole of an incapacitated line-up back in playing condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN MEET ANDOVER NINE AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/23/1925 | See Source »

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