Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaudy Grand Central Palace where gleaming cars stood incongruously on rich carpets and glib salesmen explained their various attractions. Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile. Some of the artists responsible for the renascence are now working on auto bodies: Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; Joseph Urban, Ziegfeld and Metropolitan Opera scenic artist; Helen Dryden, painter and fashion artist; the house of Cartier, jewelers...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
...Richard Norman Clark Jr., of Atlanta, Georgia...