Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mound Bayou. Miss., TIME [July 26] refers to "what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad...
...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
...Miss Ederle, now grown matronly, marked the 11th anniversary of her swim last week at her home in Hempstead, L. I. Said she: "I'm 30 now, an old lady. I don't go swimming any more. I go bathing...
...Have Everything (Twentieth Century-Fox) was interesting to the Hays Office chiefly as the debut of Cinemactress Louise Hovick, who was Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee before Manhattan's burlesque theatres were abruptly curtailed last spring. Disguised under several changes of expensive wraps, Miss Hovick stalks innocuously through You Can't Have Everything without appreciably altering its merits as a smart and tuneful musical, cut from the same unpretentious pattern as its predecessors in Producer Darryl Zanuck's recent musical cycle (Sing Baby Sing, Pigskin Parade, One in a Million, On the Avenue, Wake Up and Live...