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When Elsie Murphy went job-hunting in 1934, she wanted to make a million. She thought the best chance was in the wholesale fabric business, where there were few women, and she picked S. Stroock & Co., Inc., as her target. President Sylvan Stroock offered her something less than a million, but Elsie took the job anyway-at $20 a week. By last week chic, shrewd Mrs. Murphy had still not made her million. But, at 41, she did become the $35,000-a-year president of the company (Sylvan Stroock moved himself up to the new post of board chairman...
...summer thick-thighed youngsters and greying masters of modern dance had been hard at work in their various sylvan woodsheds, chipping and chopping at works both new & old. Last week, some of the chips flew into public view...
...Weiner, Sylvan Ronald of 1242 President Street. Brooklyn; Erasmus Hall High School. Neuhauser, Charles Edward of 1819 East 24th Street, Brooklyn; James Madison High School. Wohl, Martin Jay of 1900 51st Street. Brooklyn; New Utrechi High School. Salkind, Chester Joseph of 1226 Schenectady Avenue. Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School, Weisz, George of 958 East 48th Street, Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School. Jurkowitz, Lawrence of 121-21 14 Avenue, College Point; Flushing High School. Flegenhelmer, Walter Victor of 100-07 70 Avenue. Forest Hills: Forest Hills High School. Tucker, George Leon of 144-31 68 Road, Flushing; Flushing Hills...
After 42 dark weeks, Washington's hungry theatergoers snapped up a morsel-a one-night stand of Judith Anderson in Medea, played in the outdoor Sylvan Theater at the base of the Washington Monument. Actors' Equity would still not permit its players to perform where Negroes were excluded from the audience, and the capital's only playhouse, the National, still balked at such terms...
Today's race will singular in that the Crimson runners have participated only in triangular contests so far this fall. In the opening meet, they lost to a potent M.I.T. squad, while shading Holy Cross, and last week, they watched the entire Rhode Island State team disappear over the sylvan Franklin Part horizon. Boston University had a slight bulge over the Varsity in the latter meet...