Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next appointment was that of Henry Emerson Tuttle, curator of prints. Last week a third was announced: Dean of Men Alan C. Valentine of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore graduate (class of 1921), Oxford Rhodes Scholar, Rugby player and coach of the champion U.S. Olympic Rugby team at Paris...
...District Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) last September to run vainly for governor. Old Guardsmen led by hard-boiled Congressman Snell demanded the appointment of Keyes Winter, wheelhorse politician, as the Tuttle successor. The President's friends like Congresswoman Pratt and William Hill wanted Alan Fox, good 1928 Hooverizer, to get the job. Last week Mr. Snell brought into the Old Guard's insistence a threat of legislative warfare against the White House. "And it's the chairman of the Rules Committee talking." said he. The affair hung fire...
...tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan...
Writers are often human, often have children; but not often have they immortalized their own children by writing about them. Two glistering exceptions are Alan Alexander Milne and Arthur Stuart Menteth (If Winter Comes) Hutchinson. Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The Book of Simon Author Hutchinson tells you all there is to know about his son, from the age of 17 months to nearly three years. It is an affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands...
...Author. Alan Patrick Herbert, 40, was a Wykehamist (went to school at Winchester), so he naturally went on to New College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert...