Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Floyd Stahl's Varisty crew swings into action on Soldiers Field afternoon at 4 o'clock with a strong Alumni outfit providing the opposition. For the Crimson, the regular lineup will start the contest, and hurling duties will probably be divided equally among Slim Curtiss, Tom Mosley and Charley Brackett. Charley (No Hands) Heckel will be unable to play until the end of the week due to a sore throat...
...detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds, Author, Author has pepped up considerably since its start, April...
Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...
...master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears that a be-spectacled clarinet player is going to start recording for them shortly . . . Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz artists last week in an effort to label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson's new album of the Songs of Brahms and found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto...
Last week the Commission began to look less sour. Having collected many facts, it was ready to start doing something about them. First step was to appoint a new director† who has his own youth story. Floyd Wesley Reeves, born on a South Dakota ranch staked out by his father not far from Custer's last stand, spent his boyhood tending cattle instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went...