Word: towners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character, a dance director who hates girls as some captains hate the sea, a man with women smothering, mothering and berating him at work and at home until he runs away from it all. Unfortunately, in his flight he runs across Ruth Williams (Jeanne Madden) a stage-struck small towner. After that Stage Struck becomes another Warner Brothers apologia for backstage Cinderellas...
...Stockbridge, Great Barrington- whose natives are hardheaded Yankees, whose summer colonists are sedate, aristocratic New Englanders and Manhattanites. Two of the swankest, most comfortable hotels in the neighborhood are Heaton Hall and the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, both owned by Massachusetts' benign, broad-beamed Republican Representative Allen Towner Treadway. Manager of the Red Lion Inn is the Congressman's Yale-educated son, Heaton Ives Treadway, who in the winter runs hotels in Pinehurst, N. C. and Florida...
...Harvard line-ups: VARSITY FRESHMAN Wood, oh oh, Shepard Hunsaker, J. P., ih ih, Hammond Cleveland, la la, Elrod Hartstone, la Scott, 2a 2a, Blanchard Campion, e c, Tolliver Duffey, 2d 2d, Towner Magurn, 1d 1d, Livingston Warwick, cp co, Fishman Witherspoon, p p, Chaisson Howard, g g, Riecken
Neylan v. Noyes. Shrewdly Mr. Neylan hitched his Wirephoto attack to a demand that the AP directorate of 15 be altered to include small-city publishers who comprise 80% of the membership. Deftly he planted the idea that adoption of Wirephoto by the AP directorate indicated that the small towner was AP's forgotten man. That was enough to jolt the AP into action. Within a week AP President Frank Brett Noyes, venerable publisher of the rich & routine Washington Evening Star, wrote his 1,340 members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle...
Till the Day I Die & Waiting for Lefty (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, producer). If an out-of-towner had visited Manhattan last week and on three successive evenings chanced to attend the Theatre Union's Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...