Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William F. Ebling '35, of Osterville, Mass., Charles B. Feibleman '36, of Indianapolis, Ind., August C. Helmholz 2d, '36, of Rochester, Minn., John B. Hickam '36, of Galveston, Tex., Harold B. Jaffee '36, of New York, N. Y., Theodore C. Osborne '37, of Boston, Mass., Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., William A. Salant '37, of New York, N. Y., William V. Smith '37, of Medford, Mass., Sheldon C. Sommers '37, of Indianapolis, Ind., John A. Strauss '36, of New York, N. Y., Peter R. Viereck '37, of New York, N. Y., Sherwood L. Washburn...
Erin O'Brien-Moore's grandfather was part owner of the Galveston News and the Dallas News. Her brother is an associate professor of Latin & Greek at Yale. Her father was a newspaper reporter. When abroad, Erin O'Brien-Moore contemplated visiting his birthplace in Ireland, tossed a coin, went to Paris with friends instead. She owns no pets except a ten-year-old alley cat, dislikes all sports except swimming, admires Al Smith. She cried with dismay when she saw her cinema tests. Her next picture will be Dangerous Corner...
Yarns about newshawks made the most readable matter in the Jubilee Number. Recalled was the enterprise of Dick Spillane who swam and rowed through the Galveston flood of 1900 (7,000 dead) to find a working telegraph wire, dictate a four-hour story to the New York Herald. "Cosey" Noble, Sunday editor of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, turned down several of Rudyard Kipling's now famed stories, presented in person, because "they were not up to the high literary standard of the Examiner." "Jim" Crown, city editor of the New Orleans States, locked all the doors...
...Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
...Church (Episcopal) printed the pledge for its readers to sign. The Detroit Council of Churches (250,000 Protestants) has urged ministers to promote it. Besides Catholic action in such cities as Mobile, Rochester, Little Rock. St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans and Spokane, interdenominational action has been taken in Denver, Galveston and San Francisco...