Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials ended and on the bulletin board of the Club's Newport station, the America's Cup Committee announced its decision...
...ever said, exactly. But questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
...against her were. Tight-lipped Miss Smith would not say. Cried Miss Hallin: "I know it is those silly rumors about the drinking. And they're not true. Those children are only 17. There never was any liquor served." Teacher Hallin asked for a public hearing, which the Board refused. Pouted she: "Everything is going wrong at once. My parents are sick, and now my job has been unjustly taken away from, me. I'm blue...
With over 1,000 names signed to the pro-Hallin petition at week's end, Board Member Paul Haley promised a special board meeting to reopen the case. Meantime, well aware that her pretty face had been appearing daily in metropolitan prints, in one shot ostentatiously sipping milk, Isabelle Hallin mused: "An agent who handles Tyrone Power asked me to take a screen test. Of course, I would like to go to Hollywood, but first of all I want to clear myself with the people here in Saugus...
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of big University of Chicago last week became a member of the Board of Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course...