Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Batteries: Sophomores--Norman, Marsh, and Scott. Seniors--Shaw and Armstrong...
...city; but even more sensational, more blatant because of Chicago's shocking newspaper history. Wherever seasoned newsmen gather, tales are told of the Herex's famed exploits. There was the time when the late "Hildy" Johnson (TIME, April 20) got an exclusive tip on the conviction of one Norman Cook for murder; he stole into the vacated jury room, wrote "not guilty" on a dozen bits of paper, scattered them on the floor where he knew a Tribune newshawk would find them. Next morning, before the verdict was returned, the Herald & Examiner was out with COOK FOUND GUILTY while...
About three months ago George T. Delacorte Jr., a publisher without a humorous magazine, sought out Norman Hume Anthony, a humorous editor without a publisher. Publisher Delacorte wanted to add a funny paper to his successful string of 17 Dell magazines.? But Norman Anthony, onetime editor of Judge and Lije, did not want to edit it. What he said that he said was as follows...
...gallery sat the doctor who had tried to dissuade Mr. Snowden from speaking, the surgeon who recently tapped his infected bladder (TIME, March 16) and Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England (see col. i) with other bigwigs. For British businessmen the Budget is an abrupt life and death matter. New taxes decreed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget afternoon become effective on the morrow morn. One must look sharp...
When Yale went in for expansion, endowments, and publicity, it was not content to build ordinary buildings that with common efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled...