Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their own number, Alumnus James Phinney Baxter III ('14). A great friend "of Tyler Dennett, who he recommended to Williams' trustees three years ago as earnestly as Tyler Dennett was recommending him. Trustee Baxter was salmon-fishing in his native Maine during the entire fuss. Plainspoken. loyal Friend Baxter immediately announced that in educational matters...
...Louis Municipal ("Muny") Opera (not opera at all but musicomedy well-mounted on a revolving stage) has been running since June 4, when Bernice Claire, Gladys Baxter and Guy Robertson sang in The Great Waltz. Last week St. Louis applauded Oldtimer Blanche Ring's performance of Music in the Air by Hammerstein & Kern...
Skipper Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) decided to quit slaving after the Sunday morning when, on his way to get drunk, he met Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) on her way to church. Failing to share his reformation, the Slave Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney...
...James P. Baxter, 3rd, professor of History and Master of Adams House, has been appointed a permanent trustee of Williams College, from which he graduated with the Class of 1914. The appointment was announced Saturday...
...this autumn. Architect John M. Cooper last week filed with Los Angeles authorities plans and specifications for the first, an $85,000 administration centre. Quietly directing operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David Lipscomb College, a faculty recruited from Duke, University of Colorado, University of California, University of Oklahoma and several small southern schools. Pious Founder Pepperdine is a.pillar of the Church of Christ and his teachers were selected partially "for their devotion to Christian ideals and fundamental faith...