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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the floods last month, Los Angeles' non-profit-making Zoopark, owned by the California Zoological Society, had managed to keep itself going. But it had never built a reserve fund from admission charges, sale of animals, concessions and, most important, renting animal actors to films. Among Zoopark's characters: Jackie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's trademark lion; Nissa and Sweetheart, leopards which stalked through Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn; Anna May, veteran jungle-film elephant; Lady, the whooping crane which danced with Shirley Temple in Captain January...
Edward M. Rowe '27 will select 12 of the contestants tonight, and these men will compete later for the six team positions, the losers becoming alternates. The Jefferson Coolidge fund provides a prize of $100 for the winner of tonight's tryout. Although the prize has been split three ways in previous years, the whole sum can be awarded...
...instructor in English and tutor for four years. Since 1933 he has been Curator of the Theatre Collection in Widener. He received his Ph.D. in 1935 and during the Tercentenary Celebration was Assistant Director. He was also the former Executive Secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund...
Upon the desk of many a gloomy university budgetmaker John Price Jones Corp., fund raisers, last week placed a surprising document. It was a study of gifts and bequests to a sample group of 49 U. S. universities, which in 17 years have received all told $770,913,560. The surprise lay in the fact that these universities as a group had received almost as much from philanthropists after Depression as before it. Their receipts each year from 1920 to 1929 averaged $45,573,000, each year since...
Richard Whitney used his brother's $1,082,000 to return more than $900,000 in securities and cash belonging to the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which he had had in his custody and had pledged for a personal loan. Had George Whitney known that there were several million dollars involved in other fraudulent deals? No, said Dick Whitney wearily, "So far as I know, he knew nothing about the rest until it all became public...