Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale, expects to pay part of the university's expenses from unexpected legacies. He was therefore both surprised and not surprised when he picked up his paper one morning last week and learned that a rich old gentleman who had never shown any interest in the university's management and who had not been in New Haven in six years had left Yale some...
Boomed Humanity's Emile Aymoz in part...
Henry Ford, who was once sued for $1,000,000 because of his anti-Semitic utterances, insisted that his acceptance of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle* "does not . . . involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism." To prove it, he authorized a warmly pro-Jewish statement. Excerpts: "I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. . . . Because of their special adaptability . . . [the Jews] would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this, when...
...money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles were a tuning, its doorman and its conductor, Londoners both, celebrated a common birthday. Augustus ("Gus") Wade, a short, military Britisher with grey handle bar mustaches, who for 45 years has been as much a part of Carnegie Hall as the plaster lyre that adorns its ceiling, was 83. John Barbirolli was 39. Together the birthday boys bent over a large white cake, huffed & puffed at their joint quota of 122 candles...
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans is part of a week-long sport fiesta (yacht races, track meets, boxing, tennis and basketball). An invitation to the Sugar Bowl is worth about $50,000. Quick to accept New Orleans' invitation last week were undefeated Texas Christian and once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech...