Word: hillsboro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buck picked the site for his university (on Durham's outskirts), decided its architecture should be Gothic, even selected the stone for its buildings, a greenish-grey rock quarried in nearby Hillsboro, which he chose because it resembled Princeton's building stone. Buck directed that the campus should be dominated by a great Gothic chapel. When he saw the architect's plans, he ordered them changed, the 210-ft. tower moved to a commanding position in front...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
Randlett, Uintah County, Utah U.S.A., Retired; U.S.M.A., class 1902. Reference: Utah State National Bank (President of this Bank is Orval W. Adams, this year President of American Bankers' Association) ; also Hillsboro National Bank, Hillsboro...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...
Last week one of the South's leading universities and its leading college for training teachers, which face each other across Hillsboro Ave. in Nashville, Tenn., each installed a new chief. Vanderbilt University took as its third chancellor, big, venturesome Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 46. George Peabody College for Teachers took its fifth president, scholarly Psychologist Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public...