Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negotiations are in progress for a lecture by author James T. Farrell sometime this spring. Last term the group heard David Lewis, executive secretary of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada...
...first issue would probably feel that what some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
Lane Bryant started out as Lena Himmelstein. She came to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1895, at 16. After four years of struggling along as a seamstress, she married a Russian jewelry salesman named David Bryant. Within a year, the couple had a son, but a few months later Bryant died. The young widow pawned her diamond earrings, bought a sewing machine, started making lingerie at home. By 1907 she was prospering sufficiently to borrow $300 to start a separate shop, and open a bank account. At the bank, she accidentally signed her name "Lane" instead of "Lena...
...David R. Locke on Petroleum V. Nasby's troubles at "Confedrit X Roads (wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky...
...members are David W. Self '48, who will act as art director, and Gordon W. Hedin '46, who will head the circulation drive scheduled to begin later in the term...