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Opening the 51st annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association, four University professors and two other experts on current events will speak in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening on the subject, "Peoples...
Kenneth George Bellairs at 71 still covered the St. Louis police department for the Star-Times. In two more months Jock Bellairs would have celebrated his 51st year as a reporter. But one morning last fortnight, at 6:30 in a drafty room at headquarters, after phoning in a story about a $100 burglary, Jock told his city editor he was ill. Last week he died...
Last week roly-poly (200 lb., 5 ft. 8 in.) Harry Gokey, 71,. retired vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas...
...Georgia this month an all-Negro troupe pitched its tent for a ten-month road tour. As familiar throughout the South as a statue of Robert E. Lee, Silas Green from New Orleans claims that this is its 51st year on the road; oldtimers can remember it for at least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Taking official notice of European hostilities and particularly the war in Finland that probably will force cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union closed its 51st annual convention tonight with a stinging denunciation of Germany and Russia...