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...Ansonia, Conn., Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ithacans | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...friendly attitude of the two English-speaking peoples exists because of a blood tie and thus rests upon a foundation as immovable as the rock of Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blood, Curtseys & Mrs. Courtney | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Arkansas. Alfred G. Kahn '07, Union Trust Co., Little Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Among the Alumni | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...Joseph Francis Rock, botanist. ... LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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