Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There has always been a great deal about Harvard that I do not care for," writes Granville Hicks '23 in his defense of his own viewpoint in "I Love America," just off the Modern Age presses...
Born in Kenosha, Wis., Orson before the age of ten was a professional actor, ma-ing $25 a day dressed up as Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Marshall Field's. At twelve, in the progressive Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill., Orson was staging his first production of Julius Caesar-in which he played the Soothsayer, Cassius and Marc Antony with relay-race technique...
Famed Banker Thomas William Lamont last week fidgeted on the witness stand for two hours in Washington. He was trying to tell SEC Lawyer Gerhard Gesell (whose 28 years of age precisely equalled the period Mr. Lamont has worked for J. P. Morgan & Co.) why he had told nobody about it when he learned last November that Broker Richard Whitney was not only insolvent but also guilty of using customers' funds illegally. When his partner, George Whitney, came to him to borrow $1,082,000 to help his brother Dick "out of a jam," explained Mr. Lamont. "I moved...
Robert L. Calvert '39, of Cambridge, received $75 for his discussion of the Spanish literature of the Golden Age. His best undergraduate essay on Comparative Literature of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance won $50 for David R. Simboli '40, of New York City and Winthrop House...
Lying low while Huxley fought evolution's battles, ridden by an anxiety neurosis until he became famous, he spent his old age reading romantic novels, died quietly at 73, concerned for the future of his investments, never realized how completely he had revolutionized the whole field of human thought...