Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained the supposedly palpable fake. So crowded is the New York County's Supreme Court calendar that a final, legal answer to this Macfadden muddle may not be handed down for two years or more...
...come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing men, and never is there any attempt to 'frisk their whiskers.' Indeed it must be admitted that a good deal of the time they are just plain 'corny...
...America did the consecrating: Bishop Frank V. C. Cloak of the Chicago Synod, Bishop Joseph Edgar Kearney of the "Missionary Jurisdiction" of South Carolina, Bishop George Marshall of the First Synod of Canada (affiliated with the Free Church of England). Bishop Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book with "high" elements deleted, the Reformed Church was founded in 1873 by a discontented Episcopalian, Rev. George David Cummins. It invites all comers to Holy...
...dish!" Producer Schulberg offered him a job. Trent's real name is Laverne Browne. Son of an Orange County, Calif, orange grower, he took up aviation while at college, barnstormed through Virginia, got a pilot's license, spent one year on TWA's New York-to-Kansas City run, year-and-a-half on the Kansas City-to-Los Angeles. He has flown 600,000 miles without an accident, still has a TWA job as reserve pilot at $1 a month, is afraid to ride in taxis. Asked how he felt after his first studio work...
...route to the Olympic Games as a javelin thrower, Phil Donlan (Paul Kelly) unwisely lets himself be involved in a shipboard party celebrating the elopement of two of his fellow passengers. Their marriage fails to materialize but he gets tossed off the Olympic squad and out of the New York Police Department for drunkenness. When it turns out that the young lady (June Travis) responsible for his predicament, daughter of a hard-boiled colonel of Marines, is in love with him, Phil enlists under her father but any chance that this will mean a premature solution of the plot...