Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district last fortnight were bald-headed Representative Vincent L. Palmisano, 55, and black-thatched Thomas d'Alesandro, 35. Mr. Palmisano last week looked like the loser by perhaps 50 votes out of 25,000. As much interested in the outcome as Baltimoreans were residents of the District of Columbia. For as chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee since last April, Mr. Palmisano has been "Mayor of Washington." District of Columbians have been agitating for years, lately with vigor, for the right to vote in national elections. "Mayor" Palmisano was unsympathetic. Next-ranking member of the District committee...
Their first musicomedy was the Columbia Varsity Show of 1920 written in Rodger's freshman year. Soon after Rodgers quit Columbia, and for five years the two of them plugged along, getting a few shots at Broadway, but no lucky ones. Then in 1925 the Theatre Guild, wanting some tapestries for its new theatre and a chance to give its understudies a workout, decided to put on an informal little revue, engaged Rodgers to write the music. Hart came in on the lyrics. The show, under the title of the Garrick Gaities, opened...
...Class of 1742, a century later, had only 24 graduates. Its most famous member was Samuel Auchmuty, a noted colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...
Divorced. Malvina Cynthia Thompson ("Tommy") Scheider, fortyish, secretary and companion of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recently called her "the person who makes life possible for me"; from Frank J. Scheider, New York public school manual training instructor; under a District of Columbia law which makes five years' voluntary separation grounds for divorce; in Washington...
...advertisers to buy. President Paley takes credit for "discovering" Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Bing Crosby. But more recently advertising agencies have found how to do this job for themselves, need less help from the networks. Nevertheless, President Paley is still very much in show business. About five-eighths of Columbia's time is sustaining, must be filled with free shows. CBS prides itself on its dramatic workshop, its spot-news coverage and particularly on the American School of the Air, its new adult education campaign...