Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne F. Anderson, Cambridge--Andover...
...countered with "streamline Shakespeare" by John Barrymore and his wife Elaine Barrie, and prepared to put one over on CBS with "original" radio plays by Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over...
After a police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might...
...rigid license laws 3,000 lives would have been saved last year. The Council's chief statistician, Reuben L. Forney, showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if fatalities increase as much in the next 14 years as in the past 14. Hopefully, Florence I. Anderson, curly-haired, emphatic secretary of the East Bay Safety Council (Oakland, Calif.), declared that California's compulsory driving schools for traffic law violators were proving to be successful accident reducers...
Dutch-blooded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week started U. S. Minister to Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries...