Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stringency on its Freshman anticipatory exams last June, the English A Department expressed in no uncertain terms its intention of ignoring current trends in the College's accelerated curriculum. Members of '46 arriving in June and September were confronted with exams that only a lucky guess and a facile pen could master. As a result, the percentage of men exempted this year from the elementary English course was less than a quarter of the average number that has passed in each previous year. At a time when other quarters in the College have generally appreciated the all-important element...
...more than two decades Artist Peggy Bacon has been impartially decapitating friend & foe with neat strokes of her pen, pastel and pencil. She has also illustrated children's books. Last week a huge retrospective exhibition of Baconiana at Manhattan's Associated American Artists Galleries gave gallery-goers a chance to see what her art added up to. Of 142 exhibits, covering the walls of four large rooms, Bacon-lovers saw 35 pastels (including twelve caricatures of men & women who nevertheless remain Miss Bacon's friends), 74 drypoints (including The Socialist Meeting and Backstairs Gossip), 13 etchings (including...
Next move will be for WLB to tell its troubles to the President, who may pen a "Dear Mr. Avery" letter. Chances were it would work. Though he pooh-poohed the validity of the powers that Franklin Roosevelt delegated to WLB, Mr. Avery also said: "... If the President of the United States . . . directs that Wards accept the Board's rulings ... we will respectfully obey...
Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
...until the spring of 1942 did Mrs. Stone confess. She explained that she had used the pen name Ethel Vance ("It sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of") because: i) her daughter Eleanor (Baroness Perenyi) was then living in Czecho-Slovakia, 2) Husband Captain Ellis Stone was U.S. Naval Attache in Paris, and use of the Stone name might have been undiplomatic. But the new name had already become fashionable. A few weeks after Escape appeared, Mrs. Stone's father hired a negro cook. "Name, please?" asked Father Zaring. "Ethel Vance...