Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olivet. Joseph H. Brewer Jr., 35, made his debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...Nellie is one cut above Darryl Zanuck's feeble Advice to the Lovelorn which it copies, but its only veracity is a performance by Ned Sparks as an embittered legman. Good shot: tiny Sidney Skolsky, Holly-wood columnist for the New York Daily News, making his cinema debut when emerges timidly a nightclub wash room...
...debut of Fred Moseley as a Varsity hockey player has considerably strengthened the Harvard lineup, while the position of Frank Gleason, who is still in the Infirmary recuperating from as injured leg sustained in the game with Boston University last week, will be filled by Dick Dow. Fran Lane will be sent in as much as his convalescing knee injury will permit...
...peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad. So fixed that he can "wipe out" the broker husband at will, the peasant-tycoon takes command of the situation and the daughter has a brilliant Metropolitan debut...
...joined the Weather Bureau next year. He was summoned to Washington headquarters in 1915, made chief of the Aerological Division two years later. Eight years ago he tackled the job of organizing the Bureau's service for commercial airways, has been at it ever since. He makes his debut as Bureau chief this week at the Aeronautical Sciences Institute Convention in Manhattan...