Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who witnessed the weighing-in on Cat Cay's swank little dock was New York Sportsman Tommy Shevlin, one of the best big-game anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...
Kudized last week: Grover Aloyslus Whalen, honorary LL. D. from New York University (punned orotund Candidate Presenter Harold 0. Voorhis: "Veritably, may we say of this man of the World of Tomorrow as did John Dryden say of Alexander of Macedon, 'None but the Brave deserves the Fair' ") ; Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, Doctor of Fortitude and Faith, from Pennsylvania's Beaver College. (During the ceremonies, Dr. Byrd's head proved too big for his hood, which had to be unstitched...
...fill one of the biggest jobs in U. S. education, the presidency of Brooklyn College-(salary: $15,000), New York City's Board of Higher Education elected Economics Professor Harry David Gideonse, renowned opponent of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins' education theories. Gideonse last year quit Chicago, has since taught at Columbia's Barnard College...
...Brooklyn (coeducational) is one of New York City's four huge municipal colleges. The others: City College (for men), Hunter (for women), Queens (co-educational...
Recently New York's Republican State Legislature and New York City's economizing Board of Estimate cut $8,300,000 from the budget of New York City's Board of Education. Last week the Board announced that it would have...