Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatrical activity at Harvard is to keep the pace set in other institutions some consistent encouragement must be given to an effort to work in the theatre from the ground up. Smooth renderings of the plays of other men, however much they may foster neglected art, cannot replace one benefits had when students roll us their sleeves and do the entire job themselves. Unless undergraduate drama at Harvard is to prove a sterile toying with colored lights and elaborate stage sets some permanent avenue must be opened for those who would do more than follow through the trappings...
...Plant Division handles installation, maintenance, and the general work of installing and maintaining the material which is used throughout the Company. Into this field there go men with engineering or other mechanical training, electrical men, and others whose back ground would fit them for work in a highly technical organization...
...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...
Divorced. Frederick Cameron Church Jr., Boston scion, insurance man; by Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church of Newport, R. I., "Golden Girl," daughter of Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt; on the ground of nonsupport; in Newport...
Divorced. Percy L. Crosby of Manhattan, cartoonist (Skippy), art editor of Life; by Mrs. Gertrude V. Crosby, on the ground of extreme cruelty ("vile and obscene" language, flirtations). The Crosbys were married in 1917, have a seven-year-old daughter...