Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
MacDowell: Suite No. 2 ("Indian") (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Though he died in 1908, frail, mad, Manhattan-born Edward Alexander MacDowell still holds his title as No. 1 U. S. composer. His poetic "Indian Suite," regarded by some as his masterpiece, avoids tom-tomfoolery, sounds strangely like Sibelius. Brilliantly performed and recorded...
...three years ago a smart, dapper, young-looking man named Cortlandt Jackson Langley called on the dean of Columbia University's Teachers College, ambitious, 46-year-old William Fletcher Russell. He found Dean Russell brooding on the fact that his college, long the nation's No. 1 teacher-training institution, had in businessmen's eyes become "The Big Red University...
Last week, in hot and humid Manhattan, delegates and visitors to Dean Russell's Congress jampacked Columbia's biggest hall, its gymnasium and two overflow meeting rooms to hear democracy defended. Present were delegates from 26 noneducational organizations, and an equal number of educators, some 3,000 all told. National Association of Manufacturer's Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers...
...commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard...