Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caldwell, New Jersey, the Barrett Wendell Junior Trophy Bat; Paul deB. deGive '34 of Atlanta, Georgia, the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup; John Ware, Jr. '34 of Milton, the Angier Hockey Trophy; Thomas H. Choate '37 of Pleasantville, New York. The Bruce Finally Vanderveer Trophy in rowing; and Leonard P. Eliel '36, the Roger W. Cutler Crew...
Exactly that has now been done by one Captain Leonard F. Plugge who calls his lively chain International Broadcasting Co., in limpet-like approximation to the name of His Majesty's Government's stuffy British Broadcasting Co.* Fortnight ago President Plugge sent Vice President Frank Lamping to storm Manhattan, and U. S. exporters to Great Britain found themselves signing on dotted lines, fascinated by the prospect of having their U. S. products hawked in England by voices from Paris, Madrid and even Luxembourg...
Other appointments announced yesterday by the Corporation are those of Friedrich E. Machlup-Wolf, who will be Lecturer on Economics for the second half of the year; Edward Welbourne, Lecturer on Government and tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics for the second half of the year; Leonard Carmichael, Lecturer on Psychology for the first half of 1935-36; and Harrison S. Dimmitt, assistant secretary of the Law School for one year, from January...
Fools Rush In (produced by Leonard Sillman). Last spring Mr. Sillman recruited a number of agreeable young folk from Hollywood, Broadway and the radio, presented them in an informal revue called New Faces. Making allowances for the cast's inexperience, critics found it on the whole pleasant entertainment, chiefly commendable for its impudence. Last summer Producer Sillman took his whole troupe to New Rochelle, settled them in a boat tied up in a harbor off Long Island Sound, put on a sequel called Fools Rush In. Last week he brought it to Broadway...
Edgar Poe (1809-1849) was born in Boston, the second child of second-rate strolling players. His elder brother, William Henry Leonard, died at 24 of tuberculosis aggravated by drink; his sister Rosalie never developed mentally after adolescence. Edgar's mother died in Richmond, Va. when he was three, and he and his infant sister were adopted (though never legally) by kind-hearted Richmond families. Poe adored his foster-mother, Mrs. Allan, but never got along with his "Pa." Though he was brought up as a little Virginia gentleman, he soon ceased to conform. Tragedy visited him early and often...