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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pell and Mortimer were slow starting. They often have been before, so it was not a shock when the Englishmen took the first game by six points. Pell and Mortimer won the next, and then Kemp-Welch and Cambridge put on what seemed to be their last desperate spurt. They took the third game. Pell and Mortimer squared it with the fourth. The great moment had arrived ? the moment when Pell and Mortimer, according to their usual routine, should have carried the match away. Instead, Kemp-Welch and Cambridge lifted their pace another little bit and easily...
Arthur William Heintzleman of Manhattan and Paris, born in 1891 at Newark, N. J., has made a great success as painter and etcher, is represented in foreign and U. S. museums. He often travels in France and elsewhere with John Taylor Arms. His etchings bring $150 to $250 each...
Rich Men. In 1927, eleven people had incomes of $5,000,000 or over. In 1928, 13 others joined this select group. Million-dollar incomes increased from 290 to 496. While not all millionaires necessarily have a millionaire's income, and some people with millionaires' incomes often fall far short of the seven magic figures in actual wealth, during 1928 exactly 42,613 people reported incomes of $50,000 ($1,000,000 @ 5%). In 1927 there had been only 33,695 in this class. Not only rich men grew in number, as the following table of total people...
...when a female product of a progressive school tries to get into Vassar. Smith, Wellesley or Bryn Mawr, she is often unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...
...Surrey, England, T. F. Halliburton willed that his ashes be scattered under the beech tree which had often spoiled his golf score...