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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (My Day) from Hyde Park, N. Y.: "At noon Anna and I went coasting. First we both used the same sled, which broke through the crust and landed us both head first in the snow. After this experience we coasted on separate sleds...
Died. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, socialite whose sensational marriage in 1924 to Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a Negro taxidriver, ended in years of litigation and finally divorce; of lobar pneumonia; in Long Beach, N. Y...
...Sunnyside, Queens County, N. Y.. when Mrs. Louise Kleinmeyer Ryan got an engraved invitation in her mail to the wedding of Henrietta Goetz and Mrs. Ryan's husband Ralph, 34, together with an invitation to the wedding reception, she had him jailed for bigamy. Growled Ryan, "She must have been on the wrong mailing list...
Last week L. I. U., on the strength of its amazing record, suddenly replaced huge N. Y. U., whose team had lost three out of its last four games, as New York City's basketball favorite. A crowd of 13,000 gathered there to watch the Long Islanders play a team far more publicized than their earlier opponents: Rice Institute, co-champion of the strong Southwestern Conference, whose regulars are all over six feet tall. Day of the game, Coach Bee shamefacedly announced that all his men had lost their uniforms. Amused Rice players courteously offered to lend some...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...