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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remo's tenants are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bijur, who pay $5,000 a year for nine rooms. Mrs. Bijur, thirtyish and blonde, is a great-granddaughter of the William Mooney (no relation to California's Tom Mooney) who founded Manhattan's Tammany Hall. Lawyer Bijur's late father was Nathan Bijur, a justice of New York's Supreme Court, and his first cousin is Adman George Bijur. The Harry Bijurs have three servants, a Packard, an active interest in Catholic charities, no leanings toward parlor pinkery. They might well tire of having strikers picket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Dear Octopus (by Dodie Smith; produced by John C. Wilson). In real life the English surround their country houses with high hedges, for privacy. But in the theatre, English country houses are always ostentatiously on display. Dear Octopus provides the latest sentimental exhibit, peopling the manorial hall with one of those varied but unvarying families who know what Britannia-and the more genteel theatre public-expect of them. Every item in the ritual is carefully observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Pianists Josef and Rosina Lhevinne gave a gala concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, commemorating their marriage as well as their joint debut 40 years ago. The smooth length of their married life (rare for virtuosos) Mrs. Lhevinne credited to: 1) frequent separations; 2) occasional quarrels; 3) mutual understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Simpson-Sayre and Powell Clubs will compete in the finals of the Ames Competition of the Law School on Thursday at 8 o'clock in Langdell Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL CASE THURSDAY IN AMES COMPETITION | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

Authorities at the Law School told the CRIMSON that they did not approve of students going to tutoring schools and corroborated the story of the Book Exchange being "asked" to call off the review. Hall said that he had been giving review sessions in the course regularly each week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Clamps Down Upon Law School Tutoring Bureau | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

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