Word: codman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman ("Hank") Potter, it is a $1,500,000 close-up of Irene and Vernon Castle, produced by RKO Radio's Pandro Berman with 1) the advice of one of its biographees, 2) the eminently suitable talent of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire...
...Poet Longfellow, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Otherwise, though she was a voracious reader and secret soliloquizer of stories, she conformed to the easy strictness of her station, making her debut in Manhattan and at 23 marrying Edward Wharton, Boston banker. Her first book, a collaboration with Architect Ogden Codman on The Decoration of Houses (1897), was daringly modern, surprised everybody by being a success. Soon she was well launched on her literary path. Few of her social acquaintance gave her any encouragement. "My literary success puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them...
...Trubee Davison, of New York City, was named to the Committee for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, with Copley Amory, Jr. '12, of Washington, D.C. and Clarence L. Hay '08, of New York City. On the committee on Zoology are Dr. E. Amory Codman '91, of Boston, and William P. Wolcott '03 of Boston and on the committee of geological sciences is Clinton H. Crane '94, of New York City...
...preliminary heats are scheduled for Thursday afternoon, to be run off every ten minutes starting at 3.30 o'clock. On this day Russell Codman '19, prominent Boston business man, will be referee and starter, and his place will be taken a Friday by James Roosevelt, a Cambridge resident and former Harvard oarsmen. Dwight Bradford Hill '08, Boston engineer, will be the timer, James McCrae, of the Harvard Athletic Association, will be a judge of the finish, and Jack Hartnett '28, clerk of the course. On Friday, N. Henry Black '96, director of the Summer School, will act as honorary referee...
...last week clambered into a shell and rowed two miles up the Charles River at Harvard's commencement. Of the nine, all 70 or over but still spry, four were in Who's Who. They were Stroke Joseph Lee. now a social worker. Russell Sturgis Codman, hotelman and Harvard trustee, Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore doctor, Charles Pelham Curtis, Winchester, Mass., lawyer. The other five, prosperous respectable citizens who probably deserve to be in Who's Who also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon...