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...short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland. The contract-largest of its kind in Soviet history-was signed last week. Contentedly, masterfully, President Wilbert J. Austin of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders) turned from his glowing globe to speak crisply of his biggest, most distant deal. "Soviet Russia has adopted the method any large industrial concern in this country would use in a like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Austin's Austingrad | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...pigs die, that made sweat break out on his face in the dead of night, was to steal from Rehmeyer his book, The Long Lost Friend, or else get a lock of his hair and bury it eight feet underground. John Blymyer got two young fellows, John Curry and Wilbert Hess; Rehmeyer had hexed them too, he said. The three of them went down to Rehmeyer's farmhouse one night in the autumn to get the book or the lock of hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hex & Hoax | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Promptly John Blymyer's two assistants were tried. John Curry was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Wilbert Hess was found guilty and sentenced to spend from ten to twenty years in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hex & Hoax | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Married. Miss Alexandra W. Stirling, sometime (1916, 1919, 1920) National Women's Golf Champion, to Dr. Wilbert G. Fraser of Canada; in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 6, 1925 | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Alexandra Stirling, of Atlanta, Ga., three times (1916, 1919, 1920) women's national (amateur) golf champion of the U. S., to one Dr. Wilbert G. Frasier of Ottawa, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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