Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rowland Palace was an author who had polish and irony-and a young wife with an eye that pierced pretense. An unflattering news picture of himself set Palace pondering nervously on what people really thought about him. His considered conclusion: that every public figure should create or control the effigy of himself he showed to the world. Because he felt that Brynhild, his wife, might take a less than sympathetic view, he planned his ensuing publicity campaign in secret, with such conscience-bolstering sentiments as: "No human beings have ever really seen themselves. . . . They pose and act. They tell stories...
...direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour. Her final message said she had only half-an-hour...
...James Rowland Angell last fortnight ceremoniously completed a distinguished lifetime of service to U. S. education when he bestowed an honorary LL.D. on his friend Cordell Hull at his 16th and last commencement as president of Yale University. Three years younger than Secretary Hull, President Angell was bowing gracefully to Yale's rule that all faculty-men must retire at 68. All year Dr. Angell, who is lively as a cricket despite what he calls his "obvious and offensive senility," has made no bones of the fact that he was looking for another job. Last week he announced that...
...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
President James Rowland Angell of Yale was guest of honor last night at a dinner party tendered by the Harvard Club of Boston, with President Conant acting as toastmaster and George P. Gardiner, Jr. '10 the presiding officer...