Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert M. Drysdale, Jr. of Grosse Point, Herbert T. Ginman of Muskegon, James T. Murphy of Iron Mt., Ansel B. Smith, Jr. of Grand Rapids...
...middle-aged, and increased respect for the goings-on at deb parties have been common to all societies for many years now, but nowhere so boldly as in Boston. In New York the opening of the opera still recalls to the public the indisputability of an ancient grand monde; nothing so cogent remains of the old regime along the banks of the Charles. The charming anomaly of society there is that, while staying quite the most full-blooded of any in America, and retaining more of its superiority and crustiness than any other, it still caters most unreservedly...
Best production: Grand Hotel...
...star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant at 13. He came to notice with The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, later shot Morocco and An American Tragedy. Gordon Wiles left Annapolis in 1925 because of his health, studied art in Pans for two years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke...
Paul Merrick Hollister resigned as vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising) to become publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain store, succeeding Kenneth Collins who left to form his own agency (TIME. Nov. 14). A onetime reporter on his hometown paper (Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which...