Word: archers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime Democratic archer during the last Republican Administration was bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write...
Except for the charge that it is childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line...
...arrow really started in 1929 when he decided his form was bad. He shot 1,000 arrows a day for six months while slowly changing his arrow "anchor" grip from just behind his ear to under his jaw. Last week Hoogerhyde's rivals on the firing line were archers like Dr. Robert P. Elmer, the Wayne, Pa., physician who won the national title eight times, wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on archery and insisted on entertaining his rivals last week with bagpipe music every noon and evening; Captain Cassius Hayward Styles of Berkeley, Calif., onetime aviator...
...Patron Eckstein died in 1935 before they were resumed. When his widow agreed to let Ravinia be used for summer music again, 25 businessmen raised $30,000 and reopened Ravinia last summer (TIME, July 13). Back to Chicago last week went Lucrezia Bori, Leon Rothier and Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) who had helped make Ravinia opera nationally known. Day of the opening, Chamlee developed laryngitis, had to be replaced by Tenor Armand Tokatyan who in turn had to be replaced by Rolf Gerard at the Cincinnati Zoo where he was scheduled to appear. In honor of Patron Eckstein, Miss...
Bowdoin prizes in the Classics: to Gleason L. Archer, Jr. '38, of Boston, a prize of $75 for a translation into Attic Greek; and to Gordon M. Messing '38, of Indianapolis, Indiana, a prize of $75 for translation into Latin...