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...JONG IL LOVES HIS movies. Not just the more than 15,000 he's collected on videotape. His movies. Movies of him. The North Korean ruler is trailed not by the tight video crews that sometimes accompany Western leaders but by a film team straight out of 1930s back-lot Hollywood, armed with spotlights and huge reel-to-reel Panaflex cameras so loud they sound like insects feeding...
These works by photographer George Platt Lynes document the elite of New York’s artistic circles in the 1930s...
DIED. DOLLY DAWN, 86, one of the first big-band vocalists to take center stage; in Englewood, N.J. A key influence on singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, she was best known for appearances on CBS Radio--under the tag line Dance with Romance!--in the 1930s...
DIED. HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, founder of the Educational Testing Service who engineered the rise of standardized testing in college admissions; in Shelburne, Vt. As assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s, he objected to the elitist system that admitted only prep-school students. With Harvard president James Bryant Conant, he promoted the meritocratic but previously little-used SAT, now taken by 2 million students a year...
...became a requirement for scholarship applicants to the College in 1934, and a requirement for all applicants in 1941. Throughout the 1930s, Chauncey successfully persuaded other Ivy League schools to use multiple choice tests in choosing scholarship students...