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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University seconds meet Worcester Academy this afternoon in the opening game of its late season. They will clash with the invaders from the western part of the state. who are unknown in local preparatory school and college hockey circles, at the Boston Garden, and will face them with the same line which routed Andover 11 to 0, and beat the Northeastern team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CONTEST WITH ANDOVER IN HOCKEY TILT | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

...Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Scrapbookman | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tibbett's Simone | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

William J. Filbert was elected vice chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee, a new office created last week. Bald, stocky, with a set mouth and prominent, piercing eyes, this almost unknown officer of the Steel company stepped into a place second only to Myron Charles Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Filbert | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 205 East 42nd St., New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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