Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one evening this week the Duchess of Kent, chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned hours later did the Duchess learn that she had narrowly missed being shot by an assassin...
...might have gone to Dorothy Thompson. Seven million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand readers of 196 newspapers scanned them in vain for the column called On The Record, whose author is Dorothy Thompson. Five and a half million radio listeners who on Monday nights at 9 o'clock hear Dorothy Thompson discuss politics had to get along with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. This week, after three years of one of the most phenomenally successful careers in U. S. journalism, Dorothy Thompson knocked off work for a month and hopped a plane for California, turning down all proffered honors...
Dorothy Thompson wakes up at ten o'clock and reads furiously for two or three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...
...five day meeting will be formally opened Monday morning at 10 o'clock with a greeting by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Chairman of the University Overseers Visiting Committee to the School of Public Health...
Coach Floyd Stahl's Varisty crew swings into action on Soldiers Field afternoon at 4 o'clock with a strong Alumni outfit providing the opposition. For the Crimson, the regular lineup will start the contest, and hurling duties will probably be divided equally among Slim Curtiss, Tom Mosley and Charley Brackett. Charley (No Hands) Heckel will be unable to play until the end of the week due to a sore throat...