Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Harvard professors, including Howard Mumford Jones, Kirtley Mather, and Harlow Shapley had previously written a public letter supporting the position of Ralph H. Gundlach, associate professor of Psychology, one of the dismissed teachers...
Despite Franklin's fears, few Presidents had grown richer on the job. One who did was William Howard Taft. To incoming President Woodrow Wilson, Taft wrote helpfully: "You will find that Congress is very generous with the President. You have all your transportation paid for, and all servants in the White House except such valet and maid as you and Mrs. Wilson choose to employ . . . Your laundry is looked after in the White House. Altogether ... I have been able to save from my four years about...
Died. Willie Howard (real name: William Levkowitz), 62, wizened, mop-haired stage comic who convulsed theatergoers for half a century with his low-comedy antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian Howard made his debut at twelve as a boy soprano, scored his big hits teamed with older brother Eugene in the Shuberts' Winter Garden revues and George White's Scandals...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...