Word: postcards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall from a cherry tree when Albert Chandler was 14, he received a postcard: "God take care of you, my son. Mother"-the only word he ever had from her. Her brother later told him she had died, was buried in Jacksonville. Efforts to find her grave last week led "Happy" Chandler to a man named Lawrence Fortune. He suspected that they might be halfbrothers...
...California and Baltimore. At Radcliffe she studied under Psychologist William James, was one of his star pupils. At the final examination in his course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel like writing an exam that day. Next day came a postcard from James saying: "I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel like that myself"; and giving her the highest mark in the class. At Johns Hopkins Medical School she also had a resounding reputation as a student, but medicine bored her ("she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious...
...biographies done into cinema for publicity purposes. In Manhattan last week opened a film sponsored by the Catholic Writers Guild for "those whose circumstances prevent them from appearing before [the Pope] in person at Rome." It is a compilation of newsreels concerning Pope Pius XI, interspersed with picture postcard views of Rome and the Vatican. Entitled The Shepherd of the Seven Hills (by Faith Pictures Corp., formed solely for this production), it will be shown throughout...
...believed, one of the two cardinals secretly nominated at last month's consistory (TIME, March 20)- secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket and a cylinder. These Monsignor Caccia Dominioni removed. The prelates departed, officially sure that the Holy Door of St. Peter's, walled...
...lost articles are turned in at Lehman Hall, where a search is made for possible initials or names, and if found, a postcard is dispatched to the owner, telling him of his loss. In case the owner cannot be found, the article is kept in the basement office for three months, after which it is generally passed on to Phillips Brooks House or some charitable institution...