Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole, arriving on the lie de France in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood to help film Oliver Twist, regaled ship newsmen with an account of how a patent medicine had cured his arthritis: "I went into a London hospital where they pulled out all my teeth and did a lot of other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...
...having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered her a screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife. At Barbara Hutton's wedding in Paris she met Wool worth Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived in the U. S. six months ago for the purpose of marrying him. But Mrs. Donahue Sr. does...
Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fellowship: Seymour M. Farber, 3M., Buffalo, New York...
Among the speakers were Mr. John V. Jewett, who discussed the "House Plan" in the Brookline High School, Miss Mildred B. Harrison, who spoke on guidance in the Public Schools of Quincy, Mr. Howard C. Seymour, who gave a talk on follow-up information obtained from the Harvard Growth Study. Mr. Francis T. McCabe, who described the new plan of guidance in the Rindge Technical High School, while Miss Susan J. Ginn finished the evening talks by describing present activities in Boston...