Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second in the trio of Annex deans is Mrs. Bernice Brown Cronkhite, head of the Radcliffe Graduate School (middle left), who runs the affairs of all the 300, plus advanced students who help swell the Annex' total enrollment to more than 1100 girls each September...
Three years ago, when nightspot managers around the U.S. were hiring a little-known Negro singer named Billy Eckstine, they tagged him with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...
...determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
When she was a little girl, Vermont-born Emma Shipman saw some of her ailing relatives restored to health with the help of Christian Science healing. It was not very long before young Emma Shipman had made up her mind to give up Congregationalism and join Christian Science's Mother Church in Boston...
...progressing. Airers have found a glycerine compound which is sprayed on windshields to drain off the downpour in transparent sheets instead of driblets. Steel reinforcement keeps 60-by-50-feet screens from toppling in high winds. For mosquitoes, there are DDT foggings. Against fog, filters have been devised to help projectors lay the picture on the screen clearly and sharply...