Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...railroad station in Charleston, Memphis, Birmingham, Mobile. Still preserved here & there in the squalid social amber of the deep South, it is a fusion of ragtime and blues that flowered in the 20th Century's first decade. And it is important as a U. S. folk-music form because it almost died giving birth to jazz. It got its name from the place where it was (and occasionally still is) played...
Result was a scenario "unconsciously written" in the very form Hollywood scripters use for an "original screen treatment." Joanne called her script Joan of the Ark. It tells how an old lady (Aunt Sis) finds a baby afloat in a box during a flood, rescues it and brings it up. Cut to the child, a little girl, age 14, name Joan...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...
Originally the plan was to bring refugees form Greater Germany to Harvard and support them for a year, but the Committee's drive was so successful that it undertook to support a group of students for three years. At that time the University donated $10,000 in the form of 20 $500 scholarships...
Only this year have a number of colleges, including Yale, given the exam to seniors. It will be given here on a purely voluntary basis, to all Seniors who wish to take it; letters form Dean Hanford, giving full details, will go out to the entire class of 1940 this week...