Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graeme up when he fell off his pony at a Lorimer garden party in 1909. She handles the magazine's poetry, contacts, encourages, and makes story suggestions to most of the Post's women writers, a few men like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Every Post editor has a string of authors he cultivates, and Erdmann Neumeister Brandt's (whose brother runs the prominent literary agency of Brandt & Brandt) string includes many younger male fictioneers whom he, like Graeme Lorimer, has a knack of developing. Red of face and hair, Associate Editor Martin Sommers, who spills out topical information...
...Boosted to the presidency of William Randolph Hearst's ten-station radio chain, the President's second son, Elliott Roosevelt, became a big man in the Hearst empire, charged with full and heavy responsibility for making money out of a $2,000,000 string of stations in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt...
...success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break his neck to keep it that...
...less than three strings of beads were taken, including one string of 300 small beads, one string of 400 medium-sized beads, and one string of 17 large tubular beads...
...Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...