Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between 1930 and 1933 Floyd Odium gobbled up 22 investment trusts, pushed his long arm into such diversified businesses as prune ranching in California and the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. These he acquired in his prime pursuit of shaky investment companies at less than their asset value. Then by careful merging and liquidating he would ride them through to recovery at a profit. But though Atlas' profits have been good, up to last week its 36,700 common stockholders had never received a cent in dividends. Therefore it was news indeed when Mr. Odium and his four directors...
...fact that he provided the music for one of the patriotic anthems of all time, the name of Thomas Brigham Bishop has been practically forgotten in the annals of U. S. music. To see that he gets his just due from history is the purpose of an elderly New Yorker named John James MacIntyre, now a publicity man for the Cunard White Star Line, once a struggling songwriter and publisher whom Bishop befriended. This week marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Bishop's birth. Loyal John MacIntyre refused to let the occasion pass without telling his friend...
Married. James Grover Thurber, 40, famed one-eyed author and artist of The New Yorker; and Helen M. Wismer, pulp writer; in Colebrook, Conn...
Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost...
Handsome, well-born John Lavalle was planning to become a portrait painter in 1917 when the War changed his plans and he became instead a commanding first lieutenant in the same air squadron with a New Yorker named Fiorello LaGuardia. After the War, what with having four handsome children, the death of his first wife and his marriage to a pretty, high-strung daughter of the Cincinnati tobacco Wilsons, he developed his art career slowly. Last week at the age of 38, he finally got 26 able portraits up on the walls of Manhattan's Grand Central Fifth Avenue...