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Boston's short-wave WRUL observes the same moderation, but is more concerned with what President Walter Lemmon calls "morale relief" for Occupied Europe. A non-profit foundation that has as auxiliary staff the whole modern-language department at Harvard, WRUL has the blessing of the Donovan group for an extended cultural program which may cost about $500,000 this year-twice as much as NBC appropriates for short wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The U.S. Short Wave | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found Jakie was tattooed from head to foot. "If and when I get out of this mess," said Lenore, "I'm going to marry a bricklayer, a . . . boy who's never even seen a nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Stork Club, Debutante Lenore Lemmon and oil-wealthy Marian Snowden (Princess) Rospigliosi Reed Dresser had words over Lenore's style of dancing with Marian's Bradley S. Dresser. Blows swung or landed were not tallied, but next morning Lenore and friends got wires from the club announcing: "We do not now or ever want your patronage." ∙ ∙ Four hours after pretty Nancy Golden, who said she was Press Agent Richard Money's secretary, had rented a horse for a ride in Central Park, the riding academy sent out a searching party of cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Conceived in 1920 by Walter S. Lemmon in an attempt to start a world university of the air to spread knowledge and goodwill among all nations, it was not until 1935, at the time when Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, became a trustee of the then newly-formed World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, that transmission really began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Professors Broadcast to European Countries Through WRUL | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

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