Word: mends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME in the arrogant tone of an innocent accused, explain to one who has faith the remarkable coincidence of the Chrysler pan on the cover of its current issue (Jan. 8) and the Chrysler blurb on the inside spread. Then let my not always omniscient brother-in-law mend his talk...
...Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest of the world." And when Yehudi refused unless the ban was raised against Bruno Walter and other Jewish musicians, Furtwängler had replied, "It will be your fault if music goes to the dogs in Germany...
TIME erred in calling Stanford's dark-haired Corbus "blond," but let Reader Hill mend his talk. Stanford's Corbus was named right guard on Grantland Rice's 1932 All-American team, as Grantland Rice's Manhattan office (telephone: Mohawk 4-7500) will confirm. To the Princeton freshman team and its small, twinkling Coach Johnny Gorman (the quarterback who, in the 1922 Princeton-Chicago game, called for and caught a historic forward pass in the shadow of his own goal) 23 subscriptions to TIME. To Reader Hill, the bill...
...chess reflected it, and lost gracefully to Yale with a consistency that enervated H men from the third story cheer leader to President Lowell. By Gad, there never was a class like 1925, and the old lack of spirit prompts one to rise up and demand that the College mend its ways. Are we men or are we mice? Come on, fellows. Let's get aport and not back the team the way we didn't back it in '25. Parke Cummings...
...announcement by the Business School of its special session contains a promise of splendid generosity and unstinting philanthropy which is among the best of the day's empty gestures. The brochure on the subject has it that the purpose of the session is to mend the morale of unfortunate unemployed young businessmen, at least of those able to raise six hundred dollars for tuition and enough for additional expenses...