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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
...year-old John Frost Winchester went to work as an apprentice machinist in Peabody, Mass. Presently Jack Winchester became one of the first students in a Boston Y. M. C. A. automotive school. He worked on the first automobiles to reach the U. S. from abroad, learned to drive a "steamer," helped devise the first self-starter. In 1913 he landed a job as sales engineer for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also...
...fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John...
...years as president of Cornell University has enriched that old school spiritually and materially. To Brother Livingston, an M. D., Cornell owes its new $60,000,000 Manhattan Medical Centre, many a renowned scholar drawn to Cornell's campus by Lake Cayuga outside Ithaca, N. Y. This week Livingston became the second Farrand to retire...
...economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter of Dartmouth's dean, and has been an educator ever since. Serious and white-haired at 52, he takes time off from his Rockefeller duties to serve on the school board of his home town, Bronxville, N. Y., play golf with a corporation executive's score...