Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer vacation from prep school, Harold Lloyd Jr., 17, got a one-picture job acting for Sam Goldwyn. His role: a non-comic high-school boy. Already working in Hollywood, John Barrymore Jr., 17, got a look at his profile in the rushes of his first movie. Marveled he: "It's amazing. I merely said some words while the camera was grinding, and it comes out acting...
After a concert of the works of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Oklahoma!, South Pacific) had set the summer attendance record at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Variety headlined: "R & H Have Arrived as Longhairs...
...dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...long while Bucknell's faculty and students had a hard struggle. At the first commencement in 1851, seven sheepish seniors took turns wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World...
Dean Liston Pope of Yale Divinity School believes strongly in the "study of society as it is in relation to what it ought to be." This spring and summer, slim, spectacled Liston Pope (TIME, Jan. 24) made a study in Africa, under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Last week he delivered a somber report of what he saw on his 25,000-mile air tour...