Word: nila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in 1941, Mrs. Guerrero learned that she had leprosy. She began taking treatment. But when the Japs invaded the Philippines, the leprosariums were abandoned. She returned to Manila and joined the underground. With other young Ma nila matrons, she worked to help the internees and U.S. prisoners of war, brought them food, clothes, medicine, messages...
...Nila Magidoff, authority on Soviet Education, will address the Harvard Radcliffe Council of Russian War Relief tomorrow night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room from 8 to 9:30 o'clock. The subject of her talk will be "The Russian University in Wartime...
...Russian Universities in Wartime" will be the subject of an address by Mrs. Nila Magidoff at a tea sponsored by the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Council of Russian War Relief on Thursday, from 3 until 9:30 o'clock. The meeting will take place in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Scripteuse for Let's Pretend is blonde, broad-beamed Nila Mack, who used to be an actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods...
...Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...