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Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...much about him save that he made some of his money out of restaurants, was regarded as trustworthy by a number of gangsters and had Irving Bitz for a right-hand man. Go-Between Spitale thereupon disappeared from his usual haunts, and while everyone was wondering where he would bob up next, up he bobbed at a Madison Square Garden hockey game in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Snatchers on Sourland Mt. | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...Bobbing. Most elaborate addition to the Lake Placid plant was the $250,000, mile-and-a-half bob-sled run down the side of Mt. Van Hoevenberg. In the two man bob-sled (boblet) races, the best Europeans were a 20-year-old Swiss sophomore at Zurich University, Reto Capadrutt, who steered with ropes instead of a wheel, and his elderly brakeman, Oscar Geier. Best U. S. bobbers were J. Hubert and Curtis Stevens, of Lake Placid who, apparently beaten by a slow first run, heated their runners with an acetylene torch to make them go faster. Steersman J. Hubert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...prelude to the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N. Y. was a month of slush and a series of mishaps on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...days later, 335 other bob-sled riders, ski-runners, ski-jumpers, curlers, hockey-players, speed skaters, figure skaters and dog-team drivers opened the games with a parade on the ice track in Lake Placid's new $35,000 stadium. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech: "It is an evidence of the age of our modern civilization that the Olympics date back nearly 2,800 years. ... I hereby proclaim open the third Olympic winter games celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era." Greek athletes, before their Olympic games, swore to compete fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Lake Placid | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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