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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor & Publisher, passionate professional champion of the daily press, Argus-eyed foe of publicity-seekers, last fortnight attacked Educator Nicholas Murray Butler for allowing Columbia University to conceal somewhere about its curriculum "a course in press agentry." Editor & Publisher viewed with alarm the growing profession of ''public relations counsel." It warned, editorially: "This is the business that Ivy L. Lee, Edward L. Bernays. William B. Shearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columbia Flayed | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...other in the final the tournament would have achieved a suspense that it lost when Orcutt and Hicks and Collett were knotted in the same eighth of the draw. When the knot came undone, Orcutt and Hicks were out of the tournament and Collett was as good as champion. Or not quite as good. Two ladies clipped through their match and stood in her way. One was a slight, wiry lady in a brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Oakland Hills | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Among the Married. Playwright Vincent Lawrence has the sophisticated gift of disclosing serious situations in such a way that they provoke ironic amusement. A suburbanite husband (Frank Morgan) determines to purge his home of a golf champion who has been paying unwelcome attentions to his wife (Katherine Wilson). She conceals herself behind the parlor drapes to overhear his stern dismissal. All goes very well until the golfer pointedly reminds the husband that those who cherish their wives do not consort with Spanish dancers on the side. When he has gone, the curtains enfolding the wife never tremble. Their motionlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Later the wife discovers her husband at close quarters with a lady from next door. Surfeited with his infidelity and his philosophy-"You have all my love, but not all my passion"-she lures the golf champion to her bedroom to expunge her love for her husband from her heart. This rash maneuver is not very convincing, but it does give pith to the advertisement which appeared last week in all Manhattan theatre programs: "What you think of this play may start an interesting discussion. Talk it out over a big plate of HORTON'S ICE CREAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard University cross country team opens its season today at 3 o'clock against the Holy Cross Harriers. Handicapped by the loss of the Intercollegiate Cross Country Champion, J. L. Reid '29, and two of his class-mates, J. O. Wildes '29 and Leslie Flaksman '29, Coach Jaako Mikkola has been working hard with a squad captained by R. C. Aldrich '31, and composed almost entirely of Juniors and Sophomores. In the starting lineup are listed the names of five of the class of 1932, headed by N. P. Hallowell '32, who earned his University "H" by placing second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO HARRIER TEAMS FACE PURPLE THIS AFTERNOON | 10/11/1929 | See Source »

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