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...months ago, memorial services commemorating the 300th birthday of Père Marquette (TIME, May 17) were held on the Bridge. Present at the event was Dr. Marjorie Marion Nesbit, 33-year-old physician and surgeon of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, who stood near a priest whom she did not know, but who casually asked her if she had ever noticed that Marquette's garb was incorrect. Though no Catholic, Dr. Nesbit was incensed, lost no time in lining up such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair store and Edward Aloysius Cudahy...
...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
Married. Russell William Thaw, 25, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw; and Katherine Emily Roberts, 22; in Los Angeles...
...zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw...
Agent Greenburger exulted that Evelyn Nesbit had made him more money in four months than Wassermann had in four years. Exclaimed Evelyn Nesbit, as she took a vacation from night-club work, "I represent an era!" Grumped Harry K. Thaw: "I don't even know the woman...