Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advocating a bridging of the gap between prep-school and college instruction, Wolff's last March 4, contributed its Massachusetts Avenue quarters for a large and well-stocked cocktail party of Freshmen and their feminine companions, after the University had refused entertainment privileges to this group of Yardlings...
With the aim of focussing attention on "a positive peace program, designed to throw the economic power, of this country behind the efforts of an aroused world populace to halt the march of fascism," the H. S. U. will seek mass support for the peace policy recently approved by the Harvard-Radcliffe Legislative Congress...
Died. Douglas D. H. March, 52, Curator of the Old Panama Zoo; from the bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama...
Since Manhattan Lawyer Clarence John Shearn took over the rehabilitation of the Hearst publishing empire, he has done much to restore its financial stability (TIME, March 13). But as William Randolph Hearst's voting trustee and personal representative, Judge Shearn has long felt that a non-Hearst businessman at the head of the Hearst empire would do even more to restore its standing and stability. Last week Judge Shearn found his businessman. John St. Clair Brookes Jr., though almost unknown to the U. S. at large, has already become a power in three top-flight corporations...
...biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway), $484,687. No. 1 Box-office Star Shirley Temple drew $110,256 and her mother got $52,166 as her guardian. Notable absence from the list: Mae West, who was paid $323,000 in 1936. Perennial cinema dark horses: Theatre Operators Spyros P. and Charles...