Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1936, as the Yale boat race approached, a panicky Harvard crew decided it could not win without inspiration: Since most members of the crew liked to gloat over Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates, which runs daily in the Boston Herald, they hit on the idea of asking him to send them a picture of one of his luscious, semi-nude female characters. Cartoonist Caniff obliged with a sketch of a girl named Burma. Harvard won by six lengths...
...York Herald Tribune pounced on another Chase definition: "Physical investment-stuff you can kick with your foot: financial investment-stuff you can crumple in your hand," and quoted from the record...
...disquieting implications. Now, more than at any time i nits career, the tutorial system needs strong friends, able doctors who can pull the system out of its recent attack of budgetosis. Yet Professor Burbank has packed up his bag and closed his connection with the case. Does this move herald some gloomy days for the tutorial system ahead...
...clock and reads furiously for two or three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...
...religious funeral in a Westchester chapel went: former Governor Philip F. La Follette (who flew from Wisconsin to speak an informal funeral oration) ; Indiana's onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex...