Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arthur Rodzinski will present a concert in Symphony Hall this evening with the Cleveland Orchestra. Under its present leader, who is now in his fifth year in this position, the orchestra has acquired an increased fame as one of the finest in the country...
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Allston's friend and pupil, whose fame for inventing the telegraph has obscured his gifts as an artist. One of the finest landscapes on display was Morse's View From Apple Hill, Cooperstown, New York, a long, radiant vista of Lake Otsego...
...first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon...
...100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build an imposing three-story colonial brick museum. To immortalize its heroes, baseball administrators voted to establish therein a Baseball Hall of Fame -to take the form of bronze plaques placed around the first floor exhibition hall. Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, in its third annual election, chose Grover Cleveland Alexander to join the 13 Immortals** already selected...
Last week, when the February issue appeared, announcing Reuel Durkee Harmon as its new publisher, the Farmer's Wife had earned clear title to fame as one of the country's biggest little-known publications, the only women's magazine written exclusively for farm readers, with a 1,150,000 circulation concentrated in the Midwest and Great Lakes area, an annual revenue of $1,200,000. The late Mr. Webb had long since (1915) passed Webb Publishing Company to Mr. Klein and Albert H. Harmon. The new publisher is Mr. Harmon's only...