Word: missed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Miss Ruutz-Rees [of Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn.] was first to prescribe uniforms in a U. S. girls' school, introducing them over the objections of her pupils in 1897 (TIME...
...groove. Helen Hayes makes her Broadway Shakespearean debut (two years ago she played Portia in Chicago) in the role of Viola, who, in boy's clothes, pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving a clear, pliant reading of the part...
...Professor Edward H. "Bull" Warren '95 waived his iron-bound rule that "more than 12 minutes late is absent" last week. An unidentified student walked into his Property 1 class 20 minutes late, explaining that he had just returned from a Naval Science cruise and didn't want to miss another class...
Startling to many a sponsor were Miss McBride's broadcasts for WOR. Tooling along at a great verbal clip for 45 minutes, she frequently forgot which products she had plugged, usually wound up her show by asking her announcer if there was anything she'd overlooked. When sponsors complained about her methods, she told her listeners all about it, brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink...
Besides chitchat about her comings&goings, Miss McBride includes on her programs discussions of art exhibits, flower shows, factories in operation, etc., changes pace by interviewing visiting celebrities. Helping her gather her material now are two researchers, who do preliminary leg work which Miss McBride follows up after she reads their reports. Only written material she uses on the air are a few scribbled notes on a sheet of yellow paper. In her six years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first...