Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly the Herald Tribune values its new feature was indicated last week when it printed the announcemen; not as an advertisement but as a lengthy front-page news story. Part of the news was that Mr. Coolidge's career as an occasional contributor to Hearst's Cosmopolitan is, "for at least a year," at an end; in that time he may write nothing for publication other than his daily "piece" of 150 to 200 words in the Herald Tribune...
Also notable among the scholars, politicians, benefactors whose conventional citations for honorary degrees graced last week's Commencements, was that which accompanied a C. S. D. (Doctor of Commercial Science) given by Boston University to John Robert Gregg, creator of the Gregg Shorthand System, "pioneer and outstanding contributor to the development of commercial education; originator of a system of shorthand that has become world-wide in its use, and which has conspired with the art of typewriting to revolutionize the economic outlook of young women everywhere...
With the Red Cross refusing aid, with the U. S. China Famine Relief Fund $1,400,000 short of its $2,000,000 quota, Chinese themselves are contributing 75% of what is being spent on Chinese famine relief. Major Chinese contributor last week was a lean young man whose eyes used to be weak, and who was only a small boy when the Revolution of 1911 forced him to abdicate as Emperor of China...
...Author. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, youngish (age 36), chic, attractive, has become one of the best-known women writers in the U. S. Onetime steady contributor to Life, Judge, she was recently in Hollywood, writing scenarios. Last week she was asea, enroute for her Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset...
...Dartmouth, a number of male campus celebrities are busily engaged in the introduction of "short pants" as daily wearing apparel. At Cornell, an anonymous contributor to The Sun has gained considerable publicity by advocating the establishment of "beer gardens" at that institution...