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Classically trained. Harpsichordist Marlowe learned about jazz from Purist John Henry Hammond Jr., became so good that she played an engagement last spring at Manhattan's Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
Vice-Chairmen--Professors Paul H. Buck, Mason Hammond, and Charles H. Taylor, and Richard M. Gummere; secretary, Philip Hofer; treasurer, Harold J. Coolidge; counsellors--William P. Bunyon, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, Professor Samuel H. Cross, Henry R. Hope, Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School, Miss Gladys H. McCafferty, Professor Edward S. Mason, John M. Russell, and Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger and Warren A. Seavey...
Chief among those in the group are Paul H. Buck, associate professor of History; Mason Hammond, associate professor of History; Charles H. Taylor, associate professor of History; all vice-presidents; Richard M. Gummere, chairman, Committee on Admissions; Ada Comstock, President of Radcliffe; Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages; James M. Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History Counsellors; Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government; Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; and Crane Brinton, associate professor of History, committee chairmen
...fleshing of hides. He made his first million in seven years and began to expand. First he bought up the old Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel so much that he never spent a night in a Pullman car. So Gowanda became the U. S. glue capital...
...Psychology. Dr. Glenn L. Ebright of Hammond, Ind. reported that cats who are frightened when taken to the hospital "become acclimated much more readily if they are kept in the same unit with dogs." If noisy, they "can often be pacified by placing a mouse in a jar where they can watch...