Word: boynton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farley's boat: Elliott, Blatchford, Smith, Bodine, Shepley, Rothschild, Clark, Boynton...
London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
Priestley; produced by Crosby Gaige). Author John Boynton Priestley is a blunt Yorkshireman who has written several popular books, of late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
This week University of Chicago's director of health, Dr. Dudley B. Reed, was to publish a warning in the University's daily paper. University of Minnesota's Dr. Ruth Boynton already warned, without much apparent good: "It's burning the candle at both ends. It means burning up more energy than the body has time to replenish. While we know the pills keep one awake, so little is actually known of their cumulative effects that we think it unwise for students to take them without a physician's advice. No more than...
...their respective two mile relay teams. If Northrop does this, it will strengthen the Crimson relay outfit so much that they might easily win the race. The two other contenders in this classic mile run who will be well back of the three leaders, are another Ithacan, Bob Boynton, and an Eli, Holderness. Woodland is Yale's best miler, but he will have his hands so full trying to win his two mile specialty against the Cornell lads that he couldn't possibly double...