Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after doubling the Los Angeles enrollment, efficient Mrs. Mudd was named at the national convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...
Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 (K. 247) (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides) and Divertimento No. 17 (K. 334) (Lener Quartet with Aubrey and Dennis Brain, horns; Columbia: 10 sides). First complete recordings of two early but elegant Mozart items...
...years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to bestow kudos-where-kudos-is-due among ordinary businessmen. This week the Institute stepped out, announced that from now on it would recognize the science of industrial management...
Besides examining new instruments, spending their afternoons at colored movies of surgical operations, and cutting up in 45 Philadelphia hospitals, the surgeons gathered at round tables, swapped the surgical shoptalk of the year...
KITTY FOYLE - Christopher Morley -Lippincott ($2.50). Author Morley's 46th book is apparently a reaction against his cloying reputation for whimsy. Heroine is the kind of a girl things happen to, a wisecracking blurter who has an abortive affair with a Philadelphia socialite. At once too sophisticated and too crude, too literary and too "natural," her confessions are a departure from the old Morley Mellowness into a sort of Muley Naturalism...