Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick William Horton, 64, onetime valet (1900-10) to J. Pierpont Morgan; of cancer; in North Bellmore...
...occasion was the annual official portrait of the U. S. Supreme Court. Released last week (see cut), it was a photographic scoop for Harris & Ewing, which has taken all the official Court pictures since Charles Evans Hughes became Chief Justice in 1930. Harris & Ewing's dignified Chief Photographer William Whipple Campbell is opposed to enlarging the Supreme Court because nine men make a better picture...
...Brokennose." Dr. Charlie took his earliest lessons in anatomy as a small boy. In the Sioux uprising of 1862 Dr. William Worrall Mayo, father of the two famed brothers, had helped capture 38 big, powerful Indians, helped string them up wholesale along the banks of the Minnesota River. Scientifically-minded settlers who wanted a dead Indian could help themselves. "Father got Chief Broken-nose," wrote Dr. Charlie many years later. "We had a large kettle and that is where Will and I studied bones...
...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...
...Nazi publishing facts at first glance look startling indeed. The Third Reich publishes 25,000 books annually (U. S. total is 11,000; Britain's 16,000). Scores of new writers, unheard-of before Hitler, have popped into the best-seller class. U. S. Writers Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner are favorites of the Nazi Napoleons...