Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other teaching appointments are Robert A. Triffin, of Flobecq, Belgium, Instructor in Economics; Gordon A. Harrison, Oxford '37, Instructor in English; Claude M. Simpson Jr., Cambridge, Instructor in English; Russell J. Lutz, Belmont, Instructor in Forestry and Assistant to the Director of the Harvard Forest...
...with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris for a way to live, even as it was looking elsewhere...
...Most successful of all newsletters is grizzled, pipe-smoking Commander Stephen King-Hall's K.H. News-Letter. A smooth speaker on the "Children's Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...
...plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary in the Morrow schoolroom was his close friend, modest Floyd Bostwick Odium, with whom he collaborated in founding Atlas Corp., top-flight investment trust...
...value of TIME to a Canadian reader: while its cover of Canadian news is grossly inadequate, and often trivial, TIME does beat the newspapers; examples: 1) the rise of Anthony Eden in British politics, (TIME was at least six months ahead of the newspapers), 2) I'Affaire Simpson...