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...father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...
...with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter of Dartmouth...
...Rufus G. Hall, Jr., 2G, and David L. McVickar 2G, Thayer scholarships. Jack L. Durall 2G, Bernard Frieszel 3G, and James A. Rikard 2G, University fellowships...
...Princeton '34, in English. Charles J. Olson, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, A.B. Wesleyan '32, A.M. '33, in English. Albert R. Elliott, of St. Louis, Missouri, A.B. Westminster College, Mo. '35, in Government. Warren R. Isom, of Mitchell, Indians, A.B. Butler University '31, A.M. George Washington University '33, in Government. Rufus G. Hall, Jr., of Sherman, Texas, A.B. University of Texas '33, A.M. '35, in Government. Charles H. Malik of Hellopolis, Egypt A.B. American University of Heirut '27, A.M. Harvard '34, in Philosophy...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...