Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure to Washingtonians. An accomplished woodworker, he has designed the sets for most recent Gridiron Club shows. A ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood as technical adviser on Director Frank Capra's forthcoming Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...
...never really got much of a chance to absorb the true Oxford angle on Cambridge," continued Mr. Massey, "for the war came along, forcing me to leave before the end of my first year. For that reason, college didn't have a great deal of influence on my career...
Having received the benediction of Dean Chase and President Conant, the Radio Workshop is now well launched on its official career. In the last fifty years no Harvard extra-curricular project has given such promise of future significance; incorporating as it does some of the best brains--faculty and undergraduate--in the University's English, Music, Government and Physics departments, it presages an era of Harvard leadership in the development of radio technique which may well parallel the ascendancy of Professor George Baker's 47 Workshop in the field of the drama...
...this crusade has been successful but there are already indications of a growing animosity in the town against college interference. Since experience is probably the only true teacher, it may appear futile for Harvard to tender advice. But the faint hope that Dartmouth will heed this university's career in such spheres justifies some sort of warning...
...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...