Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell's head finally got on the platter, neither President Bowman nor Dr. Mitchell had publicly explained by last week, when 150 bigwigs from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted...
...girls could combine study with music, art, mountain climbing, skiing and meeting charming young Europeans. The Misses Burgess and Lux got Eleanor Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker and other bigwigs to sponsor their college, opened it in Geneva in the fall of 1930 with 25 students at $1,500 a head...
Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...
...Lillie Plummer Bliss, quietly bought whatever modern works they enjoyed, quietly deplored the fact that the art of living men received little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor...
Mother's Son. When, in speaking of art, Nelson Rockefeller's tongue slips and he says "geology" for "morphology," he says he wishes he could get the oil business out of his head for a minute. He is director of Creole Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey with properties in Venezuela. He is also (since a year ago) prince and president of the huge landlording enterprise of Rockefeller Center. Nelson's actual function in both offices is under reasonable public suspicion, but it is, increasingly, that of director and president indeed...