Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultivated as a literary salon, France's Ministry of Information this week was jampacked with authors of bestsellers, turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting...
...successor of Archibald MacLeish an Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellow from the Boston Globe last year, launched the 1939-40 season of the Fellowships during the past weekend with a series of dinner meetings and personal conferences with the 12 newspapermen chosen by the University to be Nieman Follows for the coming year...
Last year there were only eight Nieman Fellows and, with 12 now on the list, the number of dinners has been cut from 30 to 20. Chosen from 209 applicants in 39 states, the 12 Fellows this year will be studying mainly fields relating to history, government, and economics...
...will finally be permitted to take the course will be chosen from those who meet the preliminary qualifications. They will be picked on the basis of "academic standing, interest in aviation and allied fields, maturity, and an interview," according to the official announcement...
...competition will end the night of the Varsity game with Army, November 11, so as to give the winning candidate, who will be in charge of the Yale Freshman game, and his selected assistants, a week to prepare for it. From this competition, several men are chosen to compete in the Sophomore year for the post of assistant manager their Junior year and Varsity manager their Senior year...