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Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie...
...greatly appreciate your treatment of my lawsuit against Rufus Cutler Dawes in TIME, July 51. headlined "Fair Without Pants" in the Theatre department. It just occurred to me an original valentine I wrote to a woman friend last February might amuse your readers as "The Big Bad Wolf" has since become prominent. If you wish to, you are welcome...
...gravest concern to Chief Impresario Rufus Dawes last week was the final profit and loss standing of his enterprise. Estimated total amount spent on the show was $32,529,000, but a considerable part of this was spent by exhibitors and concessionaires. When the Fair opened, its total liabilities were $13,202,000 of which $9,750,000 represented a bond issue subscribed by Chicagoans. Three days before closing, revenue from admissions was $8,913,000, from concessions $3,055,000. Expenses were $4,913,000. With adjustments for lesser items net operating profit was $7,454,000. Remaining liabilities...
...announcement of the final week of the Fair was that it would open again in 1934. As money came in during the summer Impresario Rufus Dawes paid off $4,000,000 of bonds. Last week he paid another million, felt he had done pretty well to pay stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair...
...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...