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...nine o'clock next morning President Roosevelt detrained at Waterbury, Vt., to be received by Vermont's Governor Charles M. Smith, Senators Varren R. Austin and Ernest W. Gibson, Republicans all. To such political foreigners the President did not find it necessary to show his diplomatic side. He drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys...
...leading makers of stringed instruments is Kalamazoo's Gibson, Inc., which used to mean mandolins to many a high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class...
...University refuses government Youth money. November 5: Bingham announces U. S. should participate in Olympics. November 8: Morison addresses nation at first meeting of Tercentenary Celebration on Harvard's past. November 14: Hall wins Burr prize. Student Council votes $2500 to PBH. Nov. 19: First Ames Prizes go to Gibson and Johnson. November 22: Bunker named 1939 Redbook head. November 23: Jayvees slaughter Yale 37-7. Varsity drops heartbreaker to end mediocre first season under Harlow. Conant announces plans for roving Professorships. November 27: Ryan, found guilty in janitor case, officially expelled...
...leadership and personality development. May 7: Harvard severs boxing relations with Yale over dispute. May 15: Winsauer chosen Ivy Orator. '36 Album released. Red Book released. May 20: Cahners and Miller named to speak at Tercentenary. Melone named '37 Album head. Ray Dennett named PBH secretary. May 21: Melone, Gibson, Bilodeau, Dubiel, Hedblom, Bowditch, Allen, Keppel, and Dampeer elected to '36-'37 Student Council. May 22: '39 Confidential Guide appears. May 29: Kessler, Stephenson, Storey, McArthur, and Page; Earle, Kennedy, and Struck named to fill out next year's Student Council...
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood...