Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Died. Charles K. Harris, 65, rich music publisher, composer of "After the Ball Was Over," ballad popular since the 1890's; in Manhattan; after a three-week illness...
...onetime Cleveland office boy who wasted so much time in billiard rooms from 1910 onwards that he became one of the world's great billiard players. Never sensational as an office boy, he is spectacular, Napoleonic with a cue. He takes daring chances and shoots so fast the balls hardly have time to stop rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat him and he was Ralph Greenleaf, impassive, shiny...
Elsa Maxwell, rich California socialite who lives in Paris and entertains amusingly on her visits to Manhattan, gave her annual Manhattan costume ball. The invitations bade 350 guests come dressed as their "opposites." Miss Maxwell rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons...
...Secretary of the Navy Adams and Secretary of War Hurley paid $600,000 to see West Point play Annapolis on a sunny afternoon in Manhattan, first Army-Navy game since 1927. Army's attack functioned smartly and the Navy backs could not move far when they had the ball, which was not often. But Navy's Captain Blimp Bowstrom was punting perfectly and the big Navy line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker...
...group of friends gave Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...