Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chief of Denmark's Armed Forces Lieut. General Erik With celebrated his 70th birthday and (that being the Army's age limit) his retirement. He was succeeded by Major General William Wain Prior, 63, a tall, slender man with a deep-lined face and penetrating eyes, who is modest, sober, steady, a little bureaucratic, of bourgeois stock. Like his father, one of Denmark's respected class called grosserer (wholesale merchants), General Prior is an economizing man. He hates to think about the way the blockade is ruining Denmark's exports of foodstuffs. Day after...
...showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...became the youngest member of The Jockey Club, the handful of oligarchs who govern U. S. horse racing. Last week Alfred Vanderbilt succeeded ailing 66-year-old Joseph E. Widener as head of New York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and August Belmont. At 27, Alfred Vanderbilt, president of two of the most important race tracks in the country, was fast getting into position as the No. 1 turfman...
Adopted. Jean, five-month-old girl; by James Bernard Schafer, Messenger (headman) of the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians; in Oakdale, L. I. Jean's home will be the 100-room Oakdale mansion (formerly William K. Vanderbilt's) acquired by the R. F. M. M. last year (TIME, July 11, 1938), who changed its name from Idle Hour to Peace Haven. A religious cult dedicated to Peace and practicing a mixture of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, and faith healing, the Fraternity will attempt to make Jean immortal, by bringing her up in an environment where death...
...team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed...