Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Establishment of a Slavic Languages and Literatures chair in memory of the late Professor Samuel Hazzard Cross '12, was announced last night by Mr. Charles H. Watkins '09, President of the Harvard Club of Boston at a dinner celebrating the 35th anniversary of the opening of the clubhouse. More than $150,000 has already been pledged toward the professorship...
Chert's French Creole Pecan Pie ("My great-grandmother said her mother's family had the recipe . . . after eating, it is usually best to pull up an easy chair and relax...
Lionel Barrymore, 70, who has been trouping from a wheel chair since he broke his hip in a 1936 studio fall, might soon be back on his feet. He walked with the help of a handrail in his latest picture, now hobbles around the studio on crutches. After he sheds 20 pounds and gets fitted with a leather corset contraption, he will try walking without the crutches...
Angry Ambassador Shaw charged over to Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's palace to demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...
Last year, in the luxurious hotel in Zurich where they had gone to live, Sophie Lehar died. At first the broken and ailing Franz spent his days and nights sitting motionless in a chair in his room. Last month, when he was given a blood transfusion at his Bad Ischl home near Salzburg, word spread that he had died. Said Franz: "Hardly ever before was there a man whom the press was so eager to eliminate." But his strength was indeed ebbing and, one day this week, at 78, he followed Sophie...