Word: naming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Freshman class government takes its name from the Union. Each fall a group of 12 Yardlings, called the Union Committee, is chosen to administer class affairs. Up to last year, the Union Committee was replaced in the spring by elected class officers...
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia...
Ballerina Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), nimble-limbed star of I Married an Angel, announced that on her forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane...
Last fortnight, however, the Hobby Lobby got NBC into the law courts. It all stemmed from the preparations for the July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them...
When at last William agreed to a separation, Caroline quickly died. "For years afterwards the mere mention of her name brought tears to his eyes. . . . 'Shall we meet?' he would be heard murmuring to himself, 'Shall we meet in another world?' " To the future Prime Minister, Caroline's death seemed like the end of the world...