Word: harley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harley Granville-Barker, noted English dramatist and Shakespearean critic, is giving currently a series of six lectures on Shakespeare's "Othello," as visiting lecturer in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's course. English 23, on Shakespeare. The lectures will be open to members of the University on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week, and next, in Emerson Hall D. at 12 o'clock...
Taxis are fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
Coughs and Comforts. In the shelters last week many were coughing, hawking and spitting (not always into handkerchiefs) and significantly all U. S. Embassy staffers were ordered inoculated against typhoid. For the moment, Harley Street physicians said, the health of the London populace showed no sign of having been affected. But everyone knows that Winter 1940-41 is in danger of becoming a breeding season for epidemics...
...case was Floyd Odium's Ogden Corp., successor to Harley Clarke's bankrupt Utilities Power & Light system, which Odium has been splitting into its component operating properties since 1935. Biggest U. P. & L. property, Indianapolis Power & Light, was sold to the public three months ago (TIME, April 15). Ogden Corp. holds the U. P. & L. leftovers. Odium wanted to do something for Ogden's common stock, of which his Atlas Corp. owns 76%. He figured he could save around $110,000 a year by substituting a 2½% bank loan for Ogden's 5% preferred. Atlas...
Married. Lieut. Henry Harley Arnold Jr., son of balding, grey-haired Chief of Air Corps Major General Arnold; and Beatrice Catherine Hickey; in Manhattan, day after the groom's graduation from West Point...