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Officers of the Harvard Dramatic Club, J. F. Joyce '32, president, constituted a reception committee in the lobby of Jordan Hall, last evening, for the performance of the "Comedy of Errors," by Sir Philip Bon Greet's company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Receives | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

...Presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson. He was graduated from Columbia in 1913, worked as a free lance advertising solicitor, made money in the War by soliciting advertising for all of the military camp papers in the East. Afterward he organized an agency to handle circulation for Current Opinion, Le Bon Ton, Popular Radio. Ten years ago, with the late crippled Author William Andrew Johnston (Limpy), longtime editor of the New York Sunday World, he started Dell Publishing Co. Their first publications were 10 cents pamphlets on "character analysis," meaning of birthdays, horoscopes, etc.. etc. First Dell magazine was Sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hullabaloo | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Hennessy, candidates of the Opposition parties. M. Doumer was practically sure of the Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Into the Stretch | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...daughter in short order, went with him when he was appointed Minister to France in 1889. She had her first taste of diplomacy and liked it. She founded the American Art Students' Club-now Reid Hall-made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat. Back in the U. S., she shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Death of a Great Lady | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Delightful Presents | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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