Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME err in saying that Samuel Goldwyn was never associated with M-G-M (TIME, Nov. 15, p. 42) ? According to The Great Goldwyn by Alva Johnston, Goldwyn was once a part of MGM. Evidently this must be correct for rumor has it that Goldwyn bought 5,000 copies [of this book...
...Grona has wanted to bring Harlem and the ballet together. While dancing and directing ballets at Roxy's Theatre in 1935, he explored upper Manhattan, dived into nightclubs. He found their dancers all too light, too sophisticated. "I want them black, black, all Negro," said von Grona. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel agreed, said "the blacker the better." Von Grona advertised, offering scholarships, and got hundreds of applications. He picked 20 of the blackest applicants and started to rehearse his ballet. The neighbors complained. Hollywood tried to lure him away. But von Grona stuck...
...year-old, vast and grubby Charity Hospital New Orleans has a medical ulcer which long has pained the local medical profession. Last year Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche secured $3,600,000 from the Public Works Administration and Charity's new director Dr. George Samuel Bel immediately started tearing down old buildings to make room for a 20-story hospital, the only State institution where Louisiana citizens may get all types of free medical care. While reconstruction progressed, patients had to be bedded in any available shelter. For Charity's Negroes, the old Negro Pythian Temple...
Last year Governor Leche, 39, and a year younger than Dr. Vidrine, sent that able man packing-he is now in private practice in New Orleans. Pathologist Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy became dean of University of Louisiana's Medical School, Cardiologist George Samuel Bel became director of Charity Hospital. And with Dean Charles Cassedy Bass of Tulane's Medical School, these doctors set out to regain for Louisiana a good name in the medical profession...
Fortnight ago plain-speaking General Hugh Samuel Johnson was prepared to broadcast to the nation an address on "Public Enemies 1 & 2-the two Social or Venereal Diseases called Syphilis & Gonorrhea." When his time came to speak, General Johnson simply growled to an estimated 17,000,000 NBC listeners...