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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain amount of the ground now covered and devote more time to the teaching of note-taking, the handling of lecture material and long-range reading assignments. The students are not going to lie down on the job when they realize what the price may be: failure to get into college...
People in big cities seldom get a chance to hear such authentic hot spirituals. But last week at a Carnegie Hall concert of Negro music sponsored by the leftist New Masses, 2,600 Manhattanites heard some pretty warm ones. Entitled "From Spirituals to Swing," the New Masses concert set out to demonstrate the evolution of Negro music from the African jungle to the boogie-woogie. This it did not quite do. The boogie-woogie (played by Meade "Lux" Lewis and others) was fairly well in the groove but the jungle music (represented by African phonograph recordings) sounded as irrelevant...
...family feelings were deeply involved in the matter. Jack Martin and his socially minded wife have long been on chilly terms with the other Curtis heirs-Daughter Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Grandsons William Curtis and Gary Bok. Among the trustees who run the Curtis estate, the Boks can always get a majority. The trustees can fire Publisher Martin when Ledger earnings drop below a certain level. That exactly this has happened was reliably reported after a stormy stockholders' meeting three weeks ago. Pink-cheeked Gary Bok, who was delegated as family "spokesman," declined to discuss the Ledger...
...shoemaker who wrote and published several volumes of verse. Born at Bristol in 1864, Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction, Sir Richard Gregory will have no successor...
...clinch the deal, which will cost his company almost $12,000,000 in stock, President Dow dangled an attractive proposition before Great Western's stockholders. For each preferred share they hold, they will get three-sixteenths of a share of Dow common; for each common share (whose price zoomed from $60 to $132 on news of the merger), one share of Dow common (about $134). The merger will make Great Western a Dow division with Jacob Hagens its manager...