Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers and directors of the corporation include the J. P. Morgan & Co. Partners Thomas Cochran (hospital president) and George Whitney; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co; Frederic William Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. The doctors on the directorate are Albert Richard Lamb, Alexander Lambert, Alfred Townsend Osgood, Joseph Storer Vheelwright...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, assertive Polish second wife of Chicago's harvester tycoon, Harold Fowler McCormick, has three passions: Music, Perfume, Feminism. For Music she has labored many a weary year without spectacular success. For Perfume, she has founded and guided to success Ganna Walska Perfumes, Inc., of Paris and New York. For Feminism she gained a victory last week when the Third Division of the U. S. Customs Court unanimously conceded her a legal residence other than that of her husband...
Wake Up and Dream. Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel...
Among Mr. Cochran's other blandishments are suave Jester Jack Buchanan and an ingratiating ingenue named Jessie Matthews. There is also Tina Meller, sister of the famed Raquel, a smoldering mite whose dances are Castillian and carnal, and the Griffiths Brothers whose appearance disguised as a horse proves again that nothing is much funnier than the combination of animal aspect and human behavior. Neglecting ambitious scenery and lavish chorus effects, Mr. Cochran has revitalized the decrepit revue formula with large doses of the unfailing remedy of personality. Wake Up and Dream succeeds because it contains individuals who do individual...