Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointments and club chartering took up the Radcliffe student Council's time at yesterday's meeting. The new Art Club, informally known as the "Dabblers," was unanimously awarded a student government charter after presentation of the required list of twenty names and a constitution...
...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...
Grandfather of the Year (named by Chicago's Grandfathers and Grandmothers Club): Vice President Alben W. Berkley ("all the world loves a lover"). Grandmother of the Year: mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper ("interested in everything that women are interested...
...would be happy if he did. His first benefit concert there two years ago had earned a neat $9,000 for the Ridgefield Library and Historical Association. Last week, with seats selling as high as $50, he raised $15,500 for the library and Ridgefield Boys' Club. . . . . Two other far-famed conductors also made notable first appearances of the season last week...
...covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass of paying witnesses it deserves: The Way West, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's October selection...