Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings and the baby keeps accumulating fathers until her no-nonsense boss (Charles Coburn) abruptly produces a solution by announcing that he does not know...
...Paris premiere at which French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were his guests. Under his new contract Jimmy will spend more time in Hollywood, continue his cinema education by taking a hand in the production of the new Goldwyn picture, Raffles, starring David Niven...
...March 1938 Esquire's smart Publisher David Smart and Editor Arnold Gingrich began to publish the magazine Ken. It was a political chip off Esquire's editorial block. Its editorial program was to tell the "inside story of world events," the inside usually being more dirt on the dictatorships. But it did not go really leftish and its original leftish editorial connections-Jay Cooke Allen (Chicago Tribune'?, foreign correspondent), George Seldes (You Can't Print That!), Ernest Hemingway- gradually drifted away. Editor Gingrich went on publishing sensational "inside" stories, not consistently taking any political side, while...
...four morning and four afternoon newspapers published in Manhattan all but two are conservative: the morning, tabloid Daily News and the evening Post. Last week, after six up-and-down years under Philadelphia Publisher J. David Stern (TIME, June 26), the Post got a new owner: the American Labor Party's City Councilman George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been...
Last week the rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Dr. David de Sola Pool, journeyed to Newport, R. I. to help celebrate the tercentenary of the city's founding. On the Sabbath eve, in Touro Synagogue (the nation's oldest, circa 1760), Dr. de Sola Pool took part in a service recalling one in 1790, when the Jews welcomed George Washington to Newport. George Washington's reply, a famed letter, was broadcast in part by Dr. de Sola Pool in a radio speech. Excerpt...