Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science at Bryn Mawr, because they are Catholics; Dr. Samuel Guy Inman because he is a Protestant. The delegation even has a "special assistant," Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, svelte widow of the President's cousin who was Minister to Canada. Besides all these there are a working staff from the State Department, the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina...
...publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher...
Merchant Johnson, who has helped Samuel Fleisher with a modest project to collect baskets of flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
...Samuel Fleisher's idea is that every district in the U. S. should hold careful tryouts in such arts as piano playing, trombone tooting, painting, drawing, weaving, embroidery, short story writing, ballet dancing. Winners would compete against winners for national prizes. These, Sponsors Fleisher, Johnson & Gates decided, will not be medals or trophies but scholarships in recognized institutions. Businesslike President Gates announced that Dean John Harrison Minnick of his School of Education is at work on "details" and already hunting for a capable director. Tryouts for the first contest, in the Philadelphia area, are scheduled for spring...
These who have enjoyed James Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson" will find a pleasant sequel in "Journal of a Tour to the Bebrides." Those who have not yet read Boswell will probably treat him much as Dr. Johnson did his first plateful of Scotch broth...