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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of her early years in Ohio. At Washington University (St. Louis) she was a vigorous undergraduate, participating in sports and endless extra-curricular activities. Her first rejection slips came from the Saturday Evening Post, to which she tried to sell blank verse masques. She studied Anglo-Saxon at Columbia in 1911, worked as a waitress and shop girl to prepare her for novels you've seen on the screen. In 1935 she regained her figure by "taking no food with her meals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

Scripts of the "March of Time's" review program are available gratis. Write "March of Time." care of Columbia Broadcasting System, 485 Madison Avenue, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Another smart U. P. merchandising move, like its streamline trains, special coach service and cheap dining-car meals, Sun Valley is Averell Harriman's pet project. He took his wife, daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs ("Eddy") Duchin and Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting's president, on an inspection tour with Count Schaffgotsch last winter. The Count will provide a platoon of Austrian ski teachers for the resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Saks Ketchum | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...heard with the Pittsburgh Symphonies over the Columbia network and his baritone voice is offered to housewives three times weekly on a morning program. Once a youthful president of corporations, Reed Kennedy is just beginning to talk about success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrote First Real College Life Novel | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Retired. Thomas Scott Fiske, 71, Columbia Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; after 34 years as secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board; in Manhattan. His successor: Columbia Mathematics Professor George Walker Mullins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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