Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompted a secretary to announce: "The gentleman from the Transcript, and four reporters." Last winter Mr. Alexander yielded his duties to his assistant. Anne L. Lawless, known to her colleagues as "Orchid Annie." Manhattan's social writing dean is an elderly gentleman with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst...
...picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being a prizefighter for two fights. He held 18 jobs, lost them all without losing his ambition to become a writer for the cinema. Friends told him the way to do it was to write a book. He wrote...
When men count off the baker's dozen of eminent U. S. women doctors they point to Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 50, Manhattan pediatrician, and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, 70, Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician, as outstanding practitioners. They point to Chicago's Dr. Gladys R. Henry Dick for her scarlet fever work (with her husband) and Maude Slye, 54, who, although no doctor, is an eminent cancer researcher...
...campaign was officially opened to raise $5,000,000 on March 20, 1924, President Eliot's ninetieth birthday, for the new buildings at Soldiers Field. The campaign was unexpectedly brought to a close. George F. Baker, the "dean of American business" said he "lost interest" when asked to give the first million. Instead he donated the complete amount. Dedication of the beautiful now buildings took place on June 4, 1927. Thus, in a quarter of a century, a flourishing school had sprung into existence, to teach, as President Lowell describes it, "the oldest of the arts, but the newest...
...course. Especially suited to the desires of the student who wishes definite instruction concerning the business of the theatre as well as instruction in public speaking, the chief attraction of the course is the congenial atmosphere of informality with which it is conducted. More than a symbol of Professor Baker's vigorous sojourn at Harvard, English 10b stands as a healthy prophecy that the University will again, sometime, have a "live" department of the Drama...