Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain can legally perform wedding ceremonies outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
...detect interesting similarities to the careers of two famed contemporary fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization...
Chicago Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's "Krum Elbow" (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York...
...Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, believes that both these views are wrong, that social interaction patterns should be taken as real, but as distinct from individual patterns. Out last week was his Collective Behavior,* a volume in which he has tried to assemble available data...
Chief Characters: Slow-moving, heavy-jowled Exchange President Charles R. Gay, a worried broker who means well; arrogant, handsome Richard Whitney, leader of a clique known as the Old Guard; puckish, tart-tongued SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, reputed to be a radical of the deepest dye; Brokers Paul Shields, E. A. Pierce, John Hanes and William McChesney Martin Jr., upstarts...