Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Igor Strawinsky, noted Russian composer, will give a free public lecture, in French, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is the first of Mr. Strawinsky's series of six lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Engagement Broken. William Edward Dodd Jr., 33, liberal son of the onetime (1933-37) U. S. Ambassador to Germany; and Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...
...Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew...
...Portland, Ore., a "Mr. Wadouski" telephoned a welder, explained that robbers had tried to crack the safe of his store but had only succeeded in jamming it. The welder opened the safe, was paid $5 for the job. Off walked Burglar Wadouski with $1,000 in cash...
...Boston, Mass., one James J. Behr listened attentively to a broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...