Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed "Johnny Crapaud'' (French for toad). The pastime became known as "Crapaud's Game," then "Crap's Game," finally-after it spread up the Mississippi and trickled throughout the country-craps...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...
John B. Fisher '41; C. Bedford Johnson '39; J. David Justice '41; James S. Lanigan '39; Donald McDonald '39; Bernard Riven...
...Biochemist Rudolf Schoenheimer have found little difficulty in securing hospital and university appointments. Other valuable medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund, Inc. in Manhattan, and provides fellowships at U. S. medical schools and hospital laboratories for well-qualified physicians...
...Fort Edward, N.Y.; Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Mass.; Joseph S. Wyzan, of Milford, Mass.; Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, of Roslindale, Mass.; William E. Braden '41, of Toledo, O.; Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, of Springfield, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vt., Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Magruder '40, of Bethesda, Md.; Walter D. Riddle, Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pa.; and Holland L. Willard '40, of Brookline, Mass...