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...Waiting) Kaptajn Rohde, his fiancee confided, was 42, musically inclined, a graceful dancer, a man of wit & humor. They had met at His Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen of Britain's Royal Engineers automatically cost her her U. S. citizenship. When she tried to regain it in 1921, after she and her ailing husband had settled in Florida, she found...
...while his whole party was in the hands of the savages. The Indians demanded only his life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back to Texas, married Bud Matthews, bore him eight children. Her book is filled with good plain Texas names such as Flake Barber and Si Hough, with accounts of droughts, troubles with banks, hard winters, written without heroics
...have never been one of those gifted birds who could sit back and say: 'All right boys, go get 'em!'" complains Roy Howard. "I have to say: 'All right boys, let's go get 'em!' " The cares and complications of management bore and worry him, as is evidenced by his long dependence on dependable Bill Hawkins...
...left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that Frederick Lamb...
...same day on the front page of the Philadelphia Record appeared a story which Radio Weekly declared ''bore intimations of the most sensational news, in all likelihood, that has ever broken the macabre radio industry." The news was that A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent was getting out of radio for good. Laconic, the official announcement was merely that "Atwater Kent Manufacturing Co. has decided to be less active in radio lines and has so informed its distributors." But it was learned that all the company's radio production had ceased, that sales were solely from sets...