Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio broadcasts be delayed until newsmen had time...
Several Radcliffe girls were found to be among the singers of the petition. Miss Vivian Wolfe, pretty blonde Freshman said: "The Harvard boys need a course like that -- badly." However her companion, Miss Alice Barr, Radcliffe '40 assured that "they know enough already." Miss Jane Samble, Radcliffe '40 deplored: "Even such a course wouldn't make a Harvard man fir for marriage...
Born. To Ernst Lubitsch, 46, famed cinema director (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife); and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress and Script Writer Vivian Gave: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...Nott Jr. was about to deliver his charge to the jury in an assault case, when he noticed that Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
...that his set will not be obsolescent for a reasonable period of time, and until television shows can command fuller attention than sound radio now gets. Well aware that the technical side of television presents no more complications, drawbacks and headaches than its artistic side, CBS has Columnist Gilbert Vivian Seldes masterminding the aesthetics of television for it while RCA builds it a transmitter to go in the Chrysler Building tower (telecasting range depends on the height of the transmitting antennae). For a month NBC has been actually sending out shows several hours a week.* Last week, when the press...