Word: tor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...
...author of Actor Meredith's last two successes, Winterset and High Tor, quickly soothed managerial feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost...
Proudest father in Washington's official family is Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, a bachelor until four years ago. Proudest mother is Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...tremendous ambition" to see all common stockholders rewarded for their patience when he addressed the company's annual meeting last month, Wall Street financial circles last week half-expected Big Steel directors to dip into surplus enough to pay off preferred dividend arrearage, thus pave the way tor a resumption on common. Since the corporation earned $28,561,000 for the first quarter of 1937, it ,would have taken $11,000,000 more to clear up the $9.25 per share arrearage plus $1.75 per share current requirements on 3,602,811 shares. This the directors did not do, voting...
...Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most promising juvenile on the U. S. stage, had walked in, asked for and been given a part. With notables waiting in the control room, with the 200 supers and actors standing by to go on the air, Bang! opened the Armory door and Whooash! entered two five...