Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying, "I am well. Fondest greetings." It seemed that Senorita Diaz had scooped the finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however, he frowned angrily last week, banned from White Spanish territory all films to which the following "radicals" have contributed: writers Upton Sinclair, Clifford Odets, Liam O'Flaherty, Dudley Nichols, Humphrey Cobb; screen stars Paul Muni...
With the zero hour for Freshmen but two weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select...
...young man regards a university position merely as a basis for a career in the industrial or political world, he is clearly not suitable for a permanent appointment...
...years, later, in 1359, like his own gay "yong Squier," he was a soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
Actually racquets, fastest of all indoor court games, takes years to master, and Grant's achievement last week was the climax of a court career which, for variety as well as brevity, is probably the most extraordinary on record in the polite history of U. S. court games. At Harvard, where he graduated in 1934, Grant captained the squash racquets team. A year later, he played on the New York Harvard Club's squash racquets team, won New York's Metropolitan squash racquets championship. Last year, Grant gave up squash racquets for squash tennis, soon became...