Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn that "Guggenheim Jeune," all aflutter, had canceled the show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with a fulltime curator in the person of Britain's foremost art-explainer, scholarly Herbert Read...
...Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations, at the low price of $7 a person a year, .was started by 500 physicians last spring...
...history (truthful and untruthful) of the causes and results of Edward's historic abdication has been told and retold and quite apart from its diplomatic and political effects, the average Britisher, and probably the average person anywhere in the world, will agree that it was the biggest piece of un-sportsmanship enacted by a nation that has usually been famous for its traditional sportsmanship...
RENO RENDEZVOUS - Leslie Ford - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two daring and brutal murders are cleared up by Colonel Primrose and misogynist Sergeant Buck. Another of Miss Ford's first-person stories, with her usual good plot and dialogue...
...list of its salaries submitted to SEC, A. G. & E. recorded paying one Ben Grey $55,000 for eleven months' work in 1937. Promptly SEC raised an astonished eyebrow. Who, it asked was this mysterious person and what service had he performed for A. G. & E. to earn such a fat fee? Last week A. G. & E. Vice President Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington...