Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week both trains staged trial runs. To court proper press attention, New York Central hired Pressagent Steve Hannagan, whose technique runs more to figures than to facts. Pressagent Hannagan's choice to set off the Century's, maiden jaunt was blonde, beautiful Model Virginia judd, who wore a frock of Twentieth Century grey. Public relations counsel for Pennsylvania was Ivy Lee, Inc., trained in less frivolous accounts like the Rockefeller interests. Counsel Lee countered with solidity: Sophie Tucker...
England. At Maiden Castle in Dorsetshire are the remains of a fortress built and manned by the Belgie people before the Roman invasion (First Century). Last fortnight it was reported from London that the Maiden Castle diggers had uncovered a haphazard burial area containing about 30 skeletons. Some of the skulls and bones were nicked as if by weapons. Apparently the Belgies had made an ill-advised sortie from the stronghold to meet oncoming Romans, who slaughtered them. Aside from the marks of battle, however, the skeletons were well preserved, were expected to shed light on the physical characteristics...
...Soloist Joseph E. Lautner Tarantella Randall Thompson, '20 Cannon: "O Due Eselhafter Martin" Mozart Symphony No. 2, Final Randall Thompson, '20 *Choruses from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester, '38 The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Conductor *Dance of the Buffoons, From "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov *"Vienna Life," Waltzes Strauss *Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson, '29 Fair Harvard *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Last week when the Nieuw Amsterdam set sail, the renascent Holland-America Line had already been able to pay back in full the Government's "20year" loan, and only a successful maiden voyage was needed to make black ink blacker still. Half way across the Atlantic, the Nieuw Amsterdam ran into genuine rough weather. Officials aboard beamed with satisfaction. She proved not only seaworthy but exceptionally steady. Three days later, however, they discovered an error in their careful Dutch calculations: Designed to make 21½ knots, the Nieuw Amsterdam did 23 without pushing and as a "seven-day ship...
...first camera kiss as a ranking star, however, is given to Gene Raymond while the two of them, cast as a pair of jewel thieves, are hiding from the police in the house of a once-famed pianist (Lewis Stone). During the starry embrace the dark-eyed maiden shows no lack of promise...