Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Orman Clark Jr. for James Ward Morris in the Tax Division. Bright brother of former Dean Charles Edward Clark of the Yale Law School, now a U. S. Circuit judge, Sam Clark, too, served first with SEC. His presence at Justice makes Treasury lawyers (of whom Tom Corcoran's young friend Edward Foley is now chief) feel more like working with the Attorney General's Office, which they hitherto avoided...
Shangri-La. No orchid hunter is Ronald Kaulback, though he once picked flowers in Tibet with famed Botanist Kingdon Ward, collected many rare plants, insects, snakes on his own 18-month scramble to find the source of Tibet's Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he traveled some 3,000 miles of unexplored shingle on the freezing-cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking...
...oldtime curtain going up & down. The play was The Minute Men of 1774-5, by James A. Herne, 19th Century playwright, father of Actresses Julie and Chrystal Herne. NBC's actors carefully did not burlesque this story of Minute Man Reuben Foxglove's beauteous ward, Dorothy, who turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute Men of 1774-5, was first of a series of nine America's Lost Plays which NBC is putting on (Thursdays...
Liszt: Fantasia on Beethoven's Ruin ot Athens (Egon Petri, pianist, with th London Philharmonic under Leslie He ward; Columbia, 3 sides). First recording of one of the numerous eggs which Liszt a musical cuckoo, laid in alien nests...
...David Stern's New York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close...