Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms: five (living-dining room 34 by 22). Roof: slate. Furniture: old mahogany. Telephones: none. Occupancy: November ("just in time to close it for the winter...
Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton. Pa., young (34) John Ringling North's circus paused in Franklin Roosevelt's back yard to check up before proceeding to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. The show was off the road before midseason because Mr. North, having lost money lately, was unable to induce his union roustabouts to take a 25? pay cut. Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom...
...Last winter British Columbia maintained with federal funds a few "concentration camps" for unemployed. This spring the camps were closed, the men told to care for themselves, and offered transportation home. Instead of leaving, they made common cause with British Columbia's "native" unemployed, agitated for a public works program. Their demands unheeded, late in May 1,200 men- all single-moved into three Vancouver buildings...
Last week, in Hollywood, Producer Selznick finally revealed his plans for Gone With the Wind: production starting this winter; release through M-G-M about Sept. 1, 1939; cost about $1,500,000; Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara to be played by Clark Gable and Norma Shearer...
...great tabloid copy, but fine indignation material for columnists like Westbrook Pegler, who simmered: "At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth 5-and-10? stores to observe the rejoicing. . . . It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter when Woolworth's own little Babbie, the darling of the $10-a-week personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds...