Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Ruth Elizabeth (Bette) Davis Nelson, 31, front-rank cinemactress; by Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr., 32, Manhattan advertising man, onetime piano-playing crooner; after a seven-year marriage; in Hollywood, Calif. Grounds : her career...
Westmore Wileox 3rd '41 was chosen the new President of the Harvard Advocate to succeed President Thornton F. Bradshaw '40 in an election yesterday. Nelson R. Gidding '41 will be the new secretary, replacing Gardner C. Quarton...
...scouts, are elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...
...then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...
...occasion: first of three Junior Assembly dances, demarcating what Society calls Society from what the public calls Society (run-of-the-mine Social Registerites). Notably present: Mary A. (for Alrichs) Steele, tall, blonde, beauteous daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...