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Graduate: $300 to Lewis S. Feuer 4G., of Brooklyn, N. Y., for an essay entitled "Time and Change." $300 to Harold S. Wilson 3G., of London, Ont., Canada, for an essay entitled "The Advice to Follow Nature in Montaigne's "Essais...
...scuffle for the world championship which Champion Barney Ross last month decided he had grown too heavy to defend. One was stocky, frog-faced Tony Canzoneri, who held the title for three years before losing it to Ross two years ago. The other was Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. Y., a tough, courageous little boxer who was" Canzoneri's sparring partner in 1933. Said Canzoneri: "You've got what it takes to become a champion...
Married. Mrs. Beatrice Ditmars Daniels, daughter of famed Snake-Man Raymond Lee Ditmars; and John B. Stanchfield, Manhattan lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy); in Scarsdale, N. Y. Both have been married, divorced...
President Bernard, most popular of the Gimbel clan, is friend to Gene Tunney and lesser celebrities, spends leisure hours entertaining richly on his Port Chester, N. Y. estate. Cousin Richard, no socialite, expresses himself by pride in his four children and by collecting the works of Edgar Allan Poe whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since...
...mortgage companies that cracked up after the 1933 Bank Moratorium with scandalous reverberations (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Having reorganized nearly one-fourth of the $800,000,000 guaranteed mortgages which his department had to take over. Superintendent Van Schaick retired to his law practice in Rochester, N. Y., which he left unwillingly in 1931 at Governor Roosevelt's request...