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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this delicate juncture Ambassador Troyanovsky as never before needed to play the discreet diplomat. There are some things an ambassador simply does not say. Ambassador Troyanovsky said nearly all of them in an address last week to the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow's most select club. The S. O. B. had invited him to submit to questions and give them the low-down on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. "Exactly why do you think President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union?" asked an Old Bolshevik...
...other prominent members of the faculty. Now even if the play had been poorly done, I would think the CRIMSON would critize it. Certainly enough space is wasted on prosaic reviews of ancient movies at the University. It may be argued that the play was privately given for a select audience and that the CRIMSON had no way of learning about this performance. The CRIMSON'S managing editor, however, lives in Kirkland House. One of the major events of the Houses, might not, of course, be worthy of this great journal. Yet on the front page of yesterday's paper...
...time or inclination to digest his newspapers thoroughly, because he likes to believe in a substratum of "inside" information which the Press does not print, because he is more impressed by gossipy chat than by formal information, the "confidential" Washington letter has become a thriving institution. Last week a select list of 800 bankers, lawyers, manufacturers, editors, etc., etc. were receiving free a new kind of "inside stuff" service which may soon be marketed at $5 a year. It is the brain-child of the enterprising editors of Collier's weekly. Its title: "The Letters...
...currently 15 different newshawks situated in strategic sections of the U. S. Every week each "X" writes Managing Editor Charles Colebaugh of Collier's a breezy, detailed memorandum on business, politics, public sentiment in his section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting reports, have them mimeographed by a process which reproduces their exact original form (color of copy paper and typewriter ink, marginal notes, penciled corrections, etc.). To maintain the illusion of inside confidence, the scribbled initials of CC (Colebaugh), B (Editorial Director Thomas Hambly Beck) and WLC (Editor William Ludlow Chenery) appear...
...1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains a first-rank reputation for scholarship...