Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Arthur Plimpton, 81. publisher (Ginn & Co.), philanthropist, scholar (The Education of Shakespeare), for 45 years the able, money-raising treasurer of Manhattan's Barnard College; of pneumonia; at Lewis Farm, Walpole, Mass...
...Friend. The courage and vitality which often attracts a scholar to a man of action recently brought Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and John L. Lewis together. Professor Tugwell had heard of Lewis' plans regarding Steel, wanted to give him "some economic advice." There was a dinner in Alexandria. Shortly thereafter Harvard's Lee Pressman, the Resettlement Administration's General Counsel, was serving the Steel Organization Committee in a similar capacity. Furthermore, when sharecroppers' organizers following their arrest recently could not raise bail in Memphis, it was the U.M.W. which arranged their freedom for them from...
...Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...
...police of Santa Monica, Calif.; after three years of litigation; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty. Divorced. Alistair MacDonald. 37, architect son of Britain's Lord President of the Council Ramsay MacDonald; by Mrs. Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with...
Although he entered anthropological work as a technician rather than as a scholar, he soon became an expert at identification of odd specimens. He worked for a few years in the Southwest, excavating the Betatakin site in Arizona in conjunction with Alfred V. Kidder '08, honorary curator of S.W. Archaeology, where he discovered a whole cultural sequence that has become known as the Basketmaker Culture...