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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Further plans were made to have a few of the fathers of Freshmen give informal talks in the spring. Although nothing definite has been decided as yet. Edmond B. Spaeth, chairman of the Union Committee, said that he hopes Mr. Benchley and Admiral Byrd will condescend to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FRESHMEN NAMED TO SPECIAL COMMITTEE | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...Union Committee last night to take charge of a series of talks on concentration which will be given within the first two weeks of March. Those elected, Charles S. Bridge, A. Theodore Lyman, Jr., and Endicott Peabody, 2nd, will ask the various heads of concentration courses to speak to the Freshmen at meetings in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FRESHMEN NAMED TO SPECIAL COMMITTEE | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

Further treading on the industry's toes, Dancer Douglas politely explained that the Met was "not singled out as a culprit," that other mutual companies employ the same "election machinery." The swing session was then adjourned until this week, and Bill Douglas journeyed to Manhattan to speak before the annual dinner of Fordham University alumni, there cut some verbal capers of his own: "The convenient and impersonalized use of the corporate device has unquestionably contributed to moral decadence. This has especially been true with the growth of bigness. . . . Individual responsibility before God has no counterpart in the corporate system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Granville Hicks '23, fellow in American History and adviser for the extra-curricular study of American Civilization, will speak tonight at 7.45 o'clock on "The Socialism of William Morris" in the Junior Common Room of Leverett House. The lecture will be open to all undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks To Speak | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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