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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixings. He writes for the "Crimson" and is absolutely death on the tutoring schools. After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolf" even if it means flunking out next semester. I tried to be sympathetic, but then deliberately referred to the "yard" as the "campus" when I found out he'd already invited a date for the Yale game. --Escort
...essential purpose of this policy is to provide security of tenure for successful teachers as early as possible. . . . The composition of the department would thus be kept in a more flexible form. . . ," the Yale President said in inaugurating the new tenure system...
Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at the Young People's Gallery in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) which showed 19 years of an artist's growth...
...parents nor the art instructors at her progressive schools ever tried to teach Dahlov. She went her own gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...
Fortnight ago Harry Selfridge's son, handsome, fun-loving H. Gordon Jr., resigned his directorships in Selfridge's and its West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with...