Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bogey whose mighty press from coast to coast has been hounding liberal teachers as Reds and renegades to U. S. ideals. The meeting began with Columnist Heywood Broun boxing the shadow as valiantly as he could without naming names. Historian Charles Austin Beard, who once taught at Columbia, followed him. Hawk-nosed, white-haired, clean-shaven Dr. Beard read his speech, made the point that education should be "a scholarly, balanced presentation of facts." Finished, he looked up, said slowly: "Some people, I am told, don't want this kind of teaching-among them, William Randolph Hearst." The shadow...
...Committee: "We all believe in freedom of the Press, freedom of speech and all that sort of thing. But we don't feel that it is our business to fight anybody's private war. It's just a fight between the Hearst papers and the Columbia University group." The superintendents voted down the amendment, adopted the original resolution...
...edition of the Princeton Town Directory listed Harold Willis Dodds, president of Princeton University, as follows: "Dodds, Harold Willis, president Columbia University...
...awards, valued by Hollywood purely for the publicity attached to winning them, five went to Columbia's famed comedy, It Happened One Night (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934): production; direction (Frank Capra); performances (Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable); adaptation (Robert Riskin). Columbia got two more, best musical scoring and sound recording, with One Night of Love. Best original story was Manhattan Melodrama by Arthur Caesar. Best shorts were The Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax. Best song was "The Continental...
Absent from the banquet was Columbia's expert Scenarist Robert Riskin who also collaborated with Director Frank Capra on Lady for a Day, Broadway Bill and whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays...