Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee sponsored lectures by Falix Frankfurter, and Bernard Do Vote '18; during 1938-1939 it will present Professor Edwin F. Gay and President James Phinney Baxter of Williams College. Last year the program of providing assistance for students in their reading was inaugurated in meetings with Freshmen at the Union...
...Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure for young Mr. Hebald...
...quite a year ago, the then president of the New York Stock Exchange, Charles R. Gay, yielding to the demand of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, started looking for a man to serve on a committee to revamp the Exchange's constitution. He picked a nonmember industrialist whose company was listed on the Big Board-Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. The recommendations of the Conway Committee eventually became the basis for the spectacular reform of the world's chief market place (TIME, Feb. 7, et seq.). Last week upon the nomination of Exchange President William...
...penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch it as a U. S. diversion. Said he: "It will undoubtedly be better than the Big Apple. It's extremely simple, gay, and makes adults act like children...
...Douglas says that even without the Whitney scandal, the day had been carried. But the Whitney affair washed the slate clean. All resistance broken, the Exchange voted immediately for reorganization and for a new board of governors which included not a single Old Guarder, not even much-maligned Charles Gay...