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...from the very beginning, those who did like TIME were apt to like it very much. One of these was the discerning President of Cornell, Dr. Livingston Farrand, who spent each Friday evening with TIME and "was never disappointed." Colonel E. M. House found that TIME "filled a long-felt need." Newton D. Baker "read every issue." Senator Borah found it "excellent-brief, brilliant, up-to-the-hour...
Boston University will conduct an Institute on Post-War Problems on March 11, 12, and 13. The list of speakers will include, among others, C. H. Mathewson of Yale; Dean George R. Harrison and M. Stanley Livingston of M. I. T.; Dean Howard M. Jones of Harvard; President Charles Seymour of Yale; Governor John Bricker of Ohio; President Daniel Marsh of Boston University; and Morris B. Lambie of Harvard...
Mairzy Doats was written two years ago by three affable-looking Broadway song writers named Milton Drake, Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman. Drake got the idea from the infant prattle of his daughter, Niela. Last month Jack Robbins decided to take a chance on it. By last week, with a sale of 350,000 sheet-music copies, it was already the biggest Tin Pan Alley freak hit since Yes, We Have No Bananas and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. Bandleader Al Trace, who had introduced the song at Broadway's Hotel Dixie, had made the first recording...
Born into a wealthy family (her grandfather was Banker Robert Livingston Cutting), she made her own debut in 1890 with the present Lady Ribblesdale (once Mrs. John Jacob Astor). When the family fortune fizzled, she taught ballroom dancing, then began to run other people's parties. Among her notable managements were the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, a Long Island party for the Prince of Wales, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania (remembering the gate crashers, she later remarked that apparently "there was never in history a country which had quite so many warm...
Sent to Camp Livingston, La., to nurse a fleet of trucks, he continued to draw at nights, squatting in a truck with netting over his head to keep bugs...