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...Annual Dinner is scheduled for 7:30 this evening. Three distinguished figures in President James Bryant Conant '14; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, and Mayor Florello H. La Guardia will address the assembled group at the Hotel Astor at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREXY OPENS DAY'S EVENTS | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...highlight of Saturday will be the annual dinner in the Hotel Astor. Governor Leverett P. Saltonstall '14 of Massachusetts, Mayor LaGuardia, and President Conant will speak. The dinner will be preceded by six special luncheons that afternoon at which specific academic problems will be discussed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Gather for Jamboree in New York, Members of Faculty to Attend Meeting | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Entertainment phases of the program include open house at the Harvard Club, the annual dinner at the Hotel Astor on Saturday evening, and Sunday at the World's Fair, which has been officially designated "Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 124 ALUMNI CLUBS TO HOLD MEETING | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

TITANIC - Robert Prechtl - Dutton ($2.50). The story of S. S. Titanic, is one long frenzy of symbolic possibilities. No Melville but murderously in earnest, Prechtl makes a sort of Tamburlaine of John Jacob Astor, constructs a magnificent tear-jerker about the aged Isidore Straus. To these creatures of fact he adds tons of Sunday-Supplement material (melodrama, pseudoscience, a malign diamond), a few moments of near-grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Reno converged some 20,000 cinemaddicts in all stages of esthetic and convivial excitement. They came by car, bus, train, plane. Present were the Governors of five States, 50 movie stars, including Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Tom Mix, Mary Astor, May Robson, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy. Three special trains transported newshawks from Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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