Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows that one German road to the Ukraine leads over his fence, up the Elbe, through Prague, across the rest of Czechoslovakia and a narrow 125-mile strip of Rumania. Benes is fully aware of Czechoslovakia's road-blocking position. Not impervious to drama himself, he told New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick four months ago: "The destiny of Europe will be decided here. This country is a natural and necessary point for European equilibrium. If this position is given up all of Central Europe is gone." Bismarck put the same thing more succinctly years before. "Whoever...
Last week, 40,000 Brooklyn baseball fans crammed Ebbets Field and 20,000 were turned away. What they had come to see was Boss MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid...
...author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile, and a few traits recognizable only to the student of the New York melting pot, identify the characters of Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages involved, the heroine's name was changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick...
Principal feature of the Stadium program will be the Ivy Oration, given this year by Nathaniel G. Benchley, of Scarsdale, New York. At the conclusion of Benchley's talk, and following the transferal of colors to the Freshman class, the confetti battle gets under...
...literary exercises, first event on the Class Day program, will consist of the delivery of the Class oration by Wiley E. Mayne of Sanborn, Iowa; the Class Ode, written by Morris Earle, of New York City, and sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard" under the direction of the Class Chorister, Robert W. Snyder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and the Class Poem, by John S. Bainbridge, of New York City...