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...flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help the "Block-Aid" campaign to help New York's needy. Excerpt: "We have reached a point...
Navajo and Pueblo Indian craftsmen will be guests of the Harvard Anthropology club at the Hotel Commander this evening. In the group will be Dineh-Slapa (Gray Man), a Navajo sand-painter, Jo-01 (War Woman), a rug weaver, and (Fat Boy), a silversmith, Nez-Pah Sa-A (White Mountain Top), a Pueblo Bead maker. The gathering will be a private affair for the education and research of the club. A. M. Tozzer '00, professor of Peabody Museum, will had the guest list...
...pince-nez on Edward Prentiss Costigan and he looks somewhat like Woodrow Wilson before politics and illness hollowed his long cheeks. Once, when he began practicing law in Denver, he was a Republican. In 1912 he ran for Governor of Colorado on the Bull Moose ticket. Not satisfied with being beaten once, he was beaten again in 1914. Then President Wilson called him to serve on the first U. S. Tariff Commission. Incorrigibly internationalistic, he stayed there until 1928. Colorado's Democrats in 1930 sent him to the Senate where he found himself the last of the Wilsonians. A maverick...
...Baker's wife is the daughter of the late Howard Leopold, who once ran for Governor in Pennsylvania on the Prohibition ticket. She wears a pince-nez, plays tennis, golfs. During the null regime she was a lively member of the Administration dancing class. Asked last week what he was going to Mexico for, Mr. Baker answered: "It's just a vacation. Not for business, for law, for statesmanship, or romance...
...Conscious, on the one hand, of no sectional prejudices, but only of being an American, on the other he has grown increasingly conscious of how different an American now is from the man or woman of any other nation." Big-eared, big-eyed, with professorial pince-nez, a clipped mustache over unprofessorially thick lips, James Truslow Adams looks young (he is 53) to be the author of so many fat and respectable books of history. In 1921 Founding of New England won him the Pulitzer Prize. Other books: Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic, Jeffersonian Principles, Hamiltonian Principles...