Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...educators as a whole, formally condemned the 8-4 plan, recommended 6-4-4 as a design for U. S. public education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation of youths between 16 and 20, who once went to work but today are at loose-ends, unable...
...sandy-haired, bespectacled Democratic wheelhorse whose official inaction was the direct cause of Tom Dewey's appointment as rackets investigator, issued a prompt, pompous denial of the charges. Equally prompt was Hulon Capshaw, an amiable, Tennessee-born Social Registerite who was a Hines heeler while still at Columbia Law School 25 years ago. Magistrate Capshaw was conveniently prepared with a statistical breakdown of his disposition of cases involving the numbers racket...
Died. Dr. Frederick Tilney, 63, world-famed neurologist, author (The Brain From Ape to Man, The Master of Destiny), longtime (1914-38) professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons; of heart disease; at Oyster...
...Carole Lombard and William Powell had agreed to act in pictures on the same sort of terms. Producer Sam Goldwyn followed suit with a statement that Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You), longtime collaborator of Columbia's Director Frank Capra, had agreed to write pictures for him on the same basis...