Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year Baron Louis Rothschild, sportsman, patron of art and science and once Austria's greatest banker, has been a prisoner of the dread Nazi Gestapo in two rooms near that of Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of Austria, on the top floor of Vienna's Hotel Metropole. Aged by a year's close confinement, the once dapper Baron last week stepped out of a plane in Zurich, Switzerland, a free man again, liberated for an unknown ransom...
...Europe in 1929, when Europe seemed far from war, two young American women, Mount Holyoke's Mildred Burgess and Syracuse University's Marguerite M. Lux, decided it would be nice to open a college for U. S. girls in Switzerland. There girls could combine study with music, art, mountain climbing, skiing and meeting charming young Europeans. The Misses Burgess and Lux got Eleanor Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker and other bigwigs to sponsor their college, opened it in Geneva in the fall of 1930 with 25 students at $1,500 a head...
...Charles Eliot Norton poetry professorship (music, art, letters), Harvard appointed high-domed Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, established a Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry fellowship (first incumbent: Robert Frost...
...gift is for a trial period of three years, after which it may be extended. Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum, will chairman the fellowship committee of seven...
...Crimson, Dave Burt, Captain Langdon Gilkey, John Palfrey, Walt Muther, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart will play in their regular positions. The last four places will be filled by George Goodwin, Bill Everts, Homer Peabody, and Art Brooks...