Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winnie-the-Pooh, 18, famed brown bear in the London Zoo, was reported dying of old age. Originally named Winnie, the bear was supposedly observed by Christopher Robin, young son of Author Alan Alexander Milne, to say "Pooh" to all visitors, including royalty. Christopher Robin named his teddy bear after her, Winnie-the-Pooh. Author Milne named a children's book after the teddy bear. The bear in the zoo was finally named after the book. Winnie's condition last week was watched with keen interest in Manhattan by the Winnie-the-Pooh Association, exclusive U. S. licensers of Pooh...
...until 1913 when he was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He was succeeded by his son Arthur Wilson Page, now vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and successively by Carl Chandlee Dickey, Barton Wood Currie (previously editor of Ladies' Home Journal), Russell Doubleday, Alan C. Collins...
...major things in common have Professor Frederick Parker Gay of Columbia, Director George Canby Robinson of the new New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association (whose blocks of white buildings open this autumn), and Dean Alan Mason Chesney of Johns Hopkins Medical School. They studied medicine at Johns Hopkins and worked at the Rockefeller Institute. To each George Washington University last week gave his first kudos, honorary doctorates in science. Professor Gay made a speech, recalling the university's great bacteriologist -Theobald Smith, "responsible for five or several more fundamental discoveries in bacteriology, protozoology and immunity"; the late Walter...
Ably performed by James Rennie and Madge Kennedy, Bridal Wise concerns itself with the tale of a horsey husband and his non-horsey wife whose marriage runs on the rocks because of their antipodal interests. After the divorce, Alan Burroughs marries a sort of female centaur. Joyce Burroughs mates with the family lawyer...
Three other officers were elected at the same time. Robert Henry Packard '33, of Salem is the new secretary of the organization while Richard Alan Ward '33, of Los Angeles, Calif. is senior representative for the coming year. Stephen Smith '34, of Port Chester, N. Y. will be vice chairman of the society during next year...