Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plan-Maker. The President's "pet children" are also problem children, and Milburn L. Wilson, the man whose exhibit touched off the President's enthusiasm, is their tutor. Tutor Wilson was an Iowa farm boy, who got a college education and went back to farming. Later he became head of the division of Farm Management for the Department of Agriculture. As a professor at Montana State College, he plunged into the problem of dry-farming, of raising more wheat per acre than had been grown before. Soon overproduction reversed his problem. He disowns authorship of the Domestic Allotment...
First chapter of the Dillinger career was the sordid story of a boy gone wrong. In 1924 he began with petty robbery, was identified after a grocery store hold-up at Mooresville outside of Indianapolis. For that he got a sentence of from 10 to 20 years. And the chapter ended with him in the Indiana State Penitentiary after he had proved too tough a customer to be handled in the reformatory...
...respect, at least, this must be considered the most significant play presented at Harvard for many a year. An amateur production which can boast among its designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have...
...Harvard players consider themselves particularly fortunate to have obtained the services of Director Joe Losey and Cmoposer virgil Thomson. Losey leaped inot prominence along Broadway last year by his excellent treatment of Albert bein's "Little Ol' Boy," while it is chiefly because of his musical setting for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" that Thomson, former director of the Harvard Glee Club, has won renown...
...which attaches to one of independent judgment. He had that quality of soul which makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect, whom to associate with was to love...