Word: fairmounters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work to develop his physique, rose every morning at 6, exercised for two hours in Fairmount Park. Now he boasts that his chest measurements are the same as Pugilist Joe Louis' "although I am shorter and 30 pounds lighter...
Since no manager would touch it this year, the orchestra men appointed a committee of their own, got Curtis Bok to be president, chipped in what they could, pledged themselves to give a full season even if they had to play to the shrubs and trees of Fairmount Park. They scheduled opera in English, Gilbert & Sullivan, "pop" and symphony concerts, ballets by Fokine, Humphrey-Weidman and Philadelphia's Montgomery and Littlefield dancers. They promised to honor unused tickets left over from last summer's fiasco...
...applied for relief, she was refused on the ground that the family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California...
Municipal University of Wichita was organized as Fairmount Institute in 1892, taken over by the city in 1926. It has a rolling, 80-acre campus on the city's edge, some 2,000 students enrolled in colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration & Industry, Education, Fine & Applied Arts, Aeronautics. Most famed is its Omnibus College which each summer takes 700 students on a camping-out bus ride over the U. S. and Canada, with courses and credits on the go (TIME, July...
Last week brought the opening of Philadelphia Orchestra's fourth outdoor season before the biggest crowd since its 1930 premiere in the natural auditorium in a nook of Fairmount Park called Robin Hood Dell. The crowd acclaimed Conductor Alexander Smallens, stood up politely while his men played "The Star Spangled Banner," then sat down to listen, with mounting enthusiasm, to the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, Prelude a I'Apres- Midi d'un Faune, Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Brahms's C Minor Symphony...