Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cecil B. DeMille, movie producer, will speak on "My Twenty-five Years in the Movies," in a lecture tonight in New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The lecture is sponsored by the Harvard Film Society, and will be open without tickets or admission charge to all members of the university and outside members of the society...
...this winter's tour, Sam Snead has proved he is no.flash in the pan. In two weeks of play, ending Christmas Day, the cool, phlegmatic juvenile lead had won the Miami Open, the Nassau Open and placed fourth in the Miami-Biltmore Open. He had won $2,000 in two weeks, had played twelve rounds of grueling competitive golf with an average of less than 69 strokes a round. In the Miami Open he had reached his peak when he zoomed away from the field to finish 13 strokes under par, scoring a 68, 67, 66, 66. Sam Snead...
...stuffed shirts and academicians from his programs. He also says he would rather put on Author Will Durant than Philosopher John Dewey. He admits his debates supply listeners with little information but conceives his role as that of stimulator. Mr. Denny wants his 3,000,000 auditors to be open-minded above all. An indefatigable user of hair tonics, bald Mr. Denny...
...organizing medical care in Nanking, Chinese army hospitals being completely inadequate. With two missionary doctors and two American nurses-whose dormitories were looted when the Japanese entered the city, as were faculty houses at Ginling College for women-the U. S.- supported University of Nanking Hospital remained open through the siege and fall of Nanking. How Missionary Magee, the university professors and doctors and other missionaries thereafter fared, Timesman Durdin did not state nor did he indicate the prospects of the university and Ginling College at Japanese hands. Obviously, however, both would need their share, and probably more...
...Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have so often done in the past-talk abstract principles while advocating legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard...