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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Mrs. Roosevelt got word of the attempt on her husband's life when she returned from a speaking engagement to her Manhattan home. Said she: "Phew! . . . But then those things are to be expected." Next day she went as scheduled to Ithaca, N. Y. to deliver an address...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...
...Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac, N. Y., civil engineer; Eddie Eagan, famed amateur boxer; Baron Walther von Mumm, onetime "champagne king" of Rheims; Jay O'Brien, Manhattan socialite...
Small, hustling Motorman Willys was an Overland dealer in Elmira, N. Y. when in the 1907 panic the company he represented neared the brink of bankruptcy. He scurried to Indianapolis, put up $350 (hurriedly raised in a saloon) to help meet the payroll. Reorganizing the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager and purchasing agent, he made Willys-Overland a leader in its field during the next decade. The Industry regards him as its pioneer in instalment selling. But Willys-Overland was overshadowed by the rise of General Motors and Chrysler in the great motor boom...
...against Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial primary and was so impressed by his defeat that he became one of Governor Smith's stanchest supporters. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson, is a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, organized the aggressive Democratic Union. In Garrison, N. Y. he has a country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear of Tammany Hall. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (hobby, art collecting) and of Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure...