Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burkes, Dustin Mahles, Egman, Parties Maurice, Relch, Peter, Reasonable, Mitchell Jay, Sears, John Winthrop, Timpson Carl William, Jr., Welcomson Paul Marshall (Captain), Yale, Richard Gordean (Manager...
...Worst Degree." To Pittsburgh-born Billy, his flaming success at 34 is still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet...
...Veteran Edward Everett Horton, who has played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, gave $5,000,000 to Harvard for a new Business School classroom building with a string attached: other donors must match his gift by July 1950. ¶ The Old Dominion Foundation (set up by Paul Mellon, Yale '29) gave Yale University and Vassar College $2,000,000 each to finance psychiatric studies...
...valley, hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...