Word: howes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Died. Alexander Julius Heinemann, 51, president of the New Orleans Southern League baseball club; at Heinemann Park, New Orleans; by his own hand. Five days prior he had interrogated a groundskeeper as to how one might best shoot oneself. Causes: stockmarket losses, ill health.
Hot for Paris (Fox). The assumption of special characteristics belonging to special classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke...
Last week Professor Joseph Christie Whitney Frazer, 54, of Johns Hopkins University, felt the intimation of such fortune. He is a chemist who has made a thoroughgoing study of gas adsorption and of catalysts. His knowledge he recently applied to motor exhaust CO, inventing a way of detoxicating it. What...
From Feb. 3 to Feb. 5 the figure skating championship of the world will be held in Manhattan. There, last week, famed skaters were practicing their loops, rockers, counters, brackets-the 48 figures that every skater must know before entering a tournament. Last week in Madison Square Garden a charity...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with...