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...preparation to opening its drive for $10,000 today, the Harvard Refugee Committee has announced the election of Robert F. Horrick, noted Boston lawyer and known as the "benefactor of the Harvard crew," as treasurer and Calhoun Stillman '39 as undergraduate treasurer...
...Although Oxford is getting a fine new post-graduate medical school and already has a world-famed low-temperature laboratory, it has otherwise been content to leave Cambridge a clear field for leadership in science. Oxford's angel is Lord Nuffield, automobile maker. Cambridge's No. 1 benefactor in recent years is another motor-maker, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, who, now 71, made his first car in 1895, competes with Nuffield for the nebulous honor of being called "the Henry Ford of England." In 1936 Austin gave Cavendish $1,250,000. Some of the equipment made possible...
Juvenile Court (Columbia). Further data on slum children, with Paul Kelly as benefactor-in-chief to a gang of young roughnecks led by Frankie Darro...
...straightforward. His one flop was For the Love of Mike, with Claudette Colbert, in 1927. The picture that made him tops in Hollywood was It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in 1934. He had been discovered by Harry Cohn long before that, repaid his benefactor with hits like That Certain Thing (1928), Dirigible (1931), Platinum Blonde (1931), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Lady for a Day (1933). From 1930 to 1932, Capra worked only on pictures written by Jo Swerling. Then Capra, who by this time had the privilege accorded only to directors...
Coventry, now the home of Daimler Motors, still celebrates with an occasional Lady Godiva ride. A bronze memorial tablet has been set up to the city's benefactor, and before Coventry's King's Head Hotel stands a colored, wooden statue of a bearded, blinded Peeping...