Word: neveral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other Yalemen would have agreed. When James Rowland Angell, amidst blaring bands and welcoming streamers, arrived in New Haven in 1921, he was the first non-Eli since 1766 to have been elected president of Yale - and Yale was never the same thereafter. For 16 years -through the roaring '20s, the big depression and the first days of the New Deal -Angell kept things stirring and growing. He built 37 new buildings on campus, nearly quadrupled Yale's endowment (from $25 million to $95 million...
...brilliance, few Yale undergraduates could have claimed to know him well. In his Woodbridge Hall office ("The only hell with Angells in it," students called it), the president had had little time for student callers. He seldom entertained, and in all those 16 years he never acquired a nickname...
...Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never in such great clumps. The network's 164 affiliated stations were uneasy and fidgety...
...Kathleen Ferrier, a Lancashire lass who likes to "keep them guessing a little longer" about her age (best guess: early 30s), Orfeo is "a tremendous emotional experience ... I want to cry all the time." A pianist in her teens, she had never taken a singing lesson until 1940, after she had entered a voice contest on a dare...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...