Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silvermine Festival (Sun. 8:45 p.m., CBS). New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy, plays Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Johannes Brahm's Variations on a Theme of Haydn at Connecticut's No. 1 music festival. Soloists : Soprano Anna Kaskas, Contralto Rosa Tentoni, Tenor Chase Baromeo, Baritone Edouard Grobe...
...flying priest, this was almost a routine appeal. But it was not so routine that Father Schulte, as he flew north with his mechanic, Brother Beaudoin, omitted to inform the New York Times about his activities. Father Schulte dashed 360 miles to Chesterfield Inlet, found the only doctor ill, pushed on, was forced down by fog at Igloolik, reached Baffin Land to find Father Cochard still living, bundled him into the plane. Reported Father Schulte to the Times, after he got his colleague safely to a hospital in Chesterfield Inlet: "Father Cochard was not troubled with airsickness and was very...
Cherubic, 61-year-old Nominee Gannett, who publishes a string of 19 wholesome family newspapers, mostly in upstate New York, promptly accepted: ''No American could refuse the nomination for the Presidency." He even offered a platform: "I should reverse the Roosevelt policy and compose a constructive program to restore prosperity, bring employment to the idle, lessen the burden of taxation and encourage business and the growth of abundancy...
When, in March 1936, the conservative New York Herald Tribune hired Miss Thompson to write a thrice-weekly column, she was known as: 1) an unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with...
...Manhattan, 23-year-old Frieda Mierse, onetime Follies showgirl, onetime "Miss New York" (1927) discussed the problems of her married life with 51-year-old Comedian Ed Wynn. Highlights: She is recuperating from one of "all sorts of breakdowns" she says she has suffered since she married Wynn 14 months ago; she is forced to hire a $20-a-night gigolo to take her out because "everybody's afraid to dance with me on account of my husband." Explained Miss Mierse: "Ed's elderly and I'm young. It's making a wreck...