Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match between Adams and Leverett was incomplete: Talcott Parsons, Tutor (A) and J. F. Preston '32 (Lev) did not complete their match; E. W. Robinson '32 (Lev) defeated D. I. Taradash '33 (A), 3-2; A. J. Bernstein '32 (Lev) defeated S. C. Carpenter '33 (A), 3-2; L. M. Patterson '34 (A) defeated Richard Bent...
...land knows more active newsmen than long, lean James D. ("Jim") Preston, 55-year-old superintendent of the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. Last week he decided he knew too many for his own good health, resigned the post he has ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston...
...Preston has managed (with one ex ception) the Press arrangements at every national convention of both parties this century. He was elected a limited mem ber of the famed Gridiron Club to serve as stage manager and property man at its dinners. When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links. (His own score: no.) He was one of the first radio enthusiasts in Washington. About his home he grows fine roses...
...likely successor to Jim Preston in the Senate gallery: William Collins, stocky little Irishman, onetime New York World office boy in the Washington bureau, for 20 years Jim Preston's assistant...
...necessities of being naughty to please the audience and nice to please the censors, lies a great void. Into this void flop most of Hollywood's attempts to be sophisticated. Universal Pictures made a valiant try to sidestep the flopping process in this production by sidestepping sophistication. When Preston Sturges wrote the play he invented a heroine who spent a good deal of time during the story trying to be seduced, but the movies, true to their glorious traditions of U. S. womanhood, calmly purified...