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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Personal-Queer feeling Ed had the day Wing On and Sincere were bombed. I had left the office at 12:15 p.m. with Y. T. Lee for Wing On's. The bombing took place at 1 :05 p. m. Ed thought I had lingered at Wing On's. To satisfy himself called up the house and was relieved when I answered the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Hooray For What! (book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E. Y. Harburg; produced by the Shuberts). Coming after bad advance reports, last-minute cast trouble, and fears that Ed Wynn had been so bad on the radio that he would keep a theatre audience away, Hooray For What! proved to be an ingratiating show, with Comic Wynn just as funny as he used to be. Sometimes the plot shuffled dully between old-fashioned musicomedy and pretentious satire, but it ceases to matter when Ed Wynn comes on. wringing his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets' Account | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Including only one meet away from Cambridge, the Freshman swimming schedule as announced by Yardling Coach Pete Peterson is: Dec. 16, Y. M. C. A.; Jan. 8, Gardner High School; Jan. 15, Worcester Boys Club; Jan 19, Brown Freshmen; Feb. 9, Boston Boys Club; Feb. 12, Exeter; Feb. 15, M. I. T. Freshmen; Feb. 19, Dartmouth Freshmen; Feb. 26, Andover; March 2, Huntington School; March 5, Brookline High School; March 12, Yale Freshmen at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peterson Announces Program Of Freshman Merman Meets | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

David R. V. Golding, Brooklyn, N. Y.; George H. Handelman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Henry F. Haviland, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; Albert C. Howell, Sandy Hook, N. J.; Charles D. B. Howell, Boston, Mass.; Ben B. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Liewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Ill.; Roland Kahn, New York, N. Y.; Herman A. J. Kiewiet de Jonge, Prangius, Switzerland; Frank W. Kroll, Elizabeth, N. J.; Paul B. Kurtz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Melvin Levine, Revere, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPPERCLASSMEN GIVEN AID TOTALING $3000 | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

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