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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Empire State Building whence he peered through dark green glasses at the city's multicellular environs; 3) called on Thomas Alva Edison at West Orange, N. J. and inspected models of the inventor's achievements. The royal plan: to stay on at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y. until late July, go to Canada for a month, sail for Siam from Vancouver...
...high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years...
Next day came their moment of triumph. Some 50,000 persons were at Kastrup Airport, among them Hoiriis's mother, also among them two of Hillig's friends from Liberty, N. Y. Wreaths were hung about their necks, there were parades, medals, a great banquet at the Town Hall. King Christian X made Pilot Hoiriis a Knight of the ancient Order of Danebroge. But if Hoiriis felt half as proud as Otto Hillig, he failed to show...
Married, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Jr., 21, Yaleman* (1932), son of Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill by his first wife (Kathleen Jenkins, now Mrs. George Pitt-Smith) ; and Elizabeth Green of Forest Hills, L. I.; secretly, three weeks ago; in Long Island City, N. Y. Unlike his father, who left Princeton at the end of his freshman year (1907) to become a hobo, O'Neill Jr. has gained distinction in col- lege, was tapped last May for Skull & Bones, won the Winthrop Prize for his scholarly acquaintance with Greek and Latin poetry (TIME, June 8). A poet...
Married, Josephine Young, 24, only daughter of Owen D. Young; and Everett Needham Case, 30, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank; in Van Hornesville, N. Y. by President Richard Eddy Sykes of St. Lawrence University, alma mater of the bride's parents...