Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phantom, Paulette Goddard is actually an amiable little brunette (5 ft. 4 in., weight no) who, born and reared in Great Neck, L. I., entered public life at twelve, as a model for children's clothes. At 16, she married Edward James, Broadwayite twice her age, whom she divorced five years later. Paulette Goddard prepared herself for her Hollywood phantom career by appearing as a chorus girl in Rio Rita. Her appearance as co-star in Dramatic School is not quite her first since Modern Times. She also made an effective talkie debut in The Young in Heart...
Donor of Yale's windfall was Edward Benedict Cobb, a typical, obscure, sentimental old grad. Inheriting nearly $3,000,000 from his family (who had owned 300 acres in the heart of Tarrytown. N. Y. since Revolutionary times), Benedict Cobb went to Yale in 1868, played on his class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice...
...visible wealth, immortalized in such forms as its Gothic buildings and great research projects, are huge U. S. fortunes (e. g. Harkness, Rockefeller). But the bulk of Yale's endowment, like that of many another U. S. college,* comes from the gifts of sentimental old grads like Edward Benedict Cobb...
...already announced, next year's president is Edward C. K. Reed '40 and Ibis is Henry R. Hayes, Jr. '40. Retiring president William L. Calfee '39 returned from a trip to New York and revealed that Lampy's plan for an eastern college comic conference to be held next Wednesday and Thursday is moving smoothly. Calfee found the Columbia Jester "especially in favor" of the proposal; the Columbians will send "at least" three delegates, he said...
...despite an admirably understanding performance, Mr. Barrymore is subordinated to Edward Arnold in the role of Anthony P. Kirby. Blending the comic and the tragic, MR. Arnold's portrayal of the financier whose success has brought loneliness with it is one of the finest pieces of acting to come to the screen this year. Jean Arthur, James Stewart and particularly Spring Byington deserve high credit as well...