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Equally as famous as their two and a half critics, the Freshmen will also entertain a fourth guest tonight in the person of Snooperman. Norman S. Stearns '44 production manager, said last night that "Snooperman would have ample opportunity, to reverse, unmolested, an untold number of book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings' Own Musical Review To Dramatize Six-Month Career | 3/22/1941 | See Source »

Opening an office on Washington's busy Wisconsin Avenue, curly-headed Jane Acheson, daughter of New Dealing Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and two other resourceful careerists announced a new super-personal service bureau (called "As You Like It") which would entertain dull guests, mind babies, and put out the cat as ably as it carried clogs to the cobbler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...average quiz show is a combination of sciolism, whimsey, trick queries and old-hat puns. But flourishing in Baltimore now is a question-&-answer program designed to enlighten as well as entertain. Known as Quiz the Scientist, aired Tuesdays at 7:45 p.m. over WBAL, the Baltimore show publicizes the activities of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, was put together five months ago by Academy Director Dr. J. Wallace Page in collaboration with a WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bright Quiz | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...supporters of the plan, the Corporation has at last consented to ask the National Youth Administration for funds for a work program at Harvard. Washington has yet to give its final nod of approval, but there is little room for doubting that it will. Meanwhile, many persons continue to entertain misconceptions of what the program will be and what it will mean to self-supporting students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. Y. A. ON THE WAY | 3/6/1941 | See Source »

MURDER OUT OF TURN-Frances & Richard Lockrldge-Stokes ($2). Pam & Jerry North entertain Bill Weigand of the New York police at their summer-colony cabin. A nice young girl and her cabin go up in flames. The whimsical Norths stand up nobly under liquor, kerosene, no sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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