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...shipyard, Ingalls is not equipped to build the large ships now most urgently in demand, but it is already benefiting from the rush of orders to the larger eastern yards. "We are not going after the vessels of 60,000 tons and up," says Ingalls' President Monro Lanier. "But the demand for ships of that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard...
...account has it that Thomas Lanier Williams changed his first name to Tennessee because he wanted to disassociate from the bad stuff he had written when his name was Tom. A lot of that early work was poetry; like a lot of young men and women, he had tried to write like Edna St. Vincent Millay without knowing one end of a burning candle from the other. But even as Tennessee, and even after The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire had proved where his real talent lay, Williams went on writing poetry...
During those shipping and flying years, Harriman compiled a considerable record as a polo player (he played with Tommy Hitchcock, was an eight-goal man) and as a man about Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and Europe. In 1915 he had married Kitty Lanier Lawrence, and they had two daughters. She divorced him in Paris in September 1929, on grounds of abandonment, never remarried, died...
Died. Jorge Pasquel, 48, millionaire Mexican sportsman, who successfully lured south some of U.S. baseball's top postwar talent to his Mexican League, e.g., Brooklyn's Mickey Owen, New York's Sal Maglie, St. Louis' Max Lanier; when his private plane crashed with five others aboard; in the mountains near Valles, 225 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Sheppard said that he will probably start Stuart Lanier, and possibly John Somelmoyer and Steve Szaraz will also see action. Nothing at all is known about Suffolk, but Sheppard said his team has been progressing all the time and will be ready to meet anybody. Thus far this season the Crimson has a 5 and 3 record...