Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Foods (cereals, coffee, etc.), $8,003,303 for Kate Smith, Burns & Allen, The Aldrich Family, Fanny Brice...
...talking and writing in a back-porch patter, Cedric has convinced nearly everyone in Minnesota that he is his personal friend. On radio station WCCO, he is more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks...
...restless man-that was the way friends on the Harvard faculty described William Allan Neilson. He was 48 when he left his professorship of English at Harvard to become president of Smith College, in 1917. Said a colleague: "I'll give Smith three years of Neilson at the outside...
Internationalism & Lumbago. Few presidents have sunk their roots deeper or let their branches spread so wide. During the 22 years of the Neilson era, Smith became the biggest women's college in the world, and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. Neilson believed in educational equality for women, but he scorned the notion that college should 36 a trade school for girls...
...built on-campus dormitories, because he thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...