Word: alto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...
...Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed his acceptance. When the board of New York Life meets again next month the newest member will take his place at a table around which sit such men as Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...Stravinsky-Dushkin recitals are scheduled for Minneapolis, Chicago, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Carmel, Los Angeles, Montreal, Washington
...BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY-Rexford G. Tugwell-Columbia University Press ($3). The handsomest of the Brain-Trusters adds his alto to the chorus of Administration authors; a more finished performance than his antiphonal responses to the Senate Committee...
...many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature, be set up in my memory or name...