Word: personals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have two refugees staying with me for the duration of the war, Mrs. Geoffrey Ennor and her 2½-year-old son Neil from Penzance, England. As you are no doubt aware, the maximum amount of money allowed any one person leaving that country is ?10. At my suggestion, Mrs. Ennor converted only a small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine...
Veteran Starlet Betty Grable, of the sensational legs and looks (last year displayed in Du Barry Was a Lady, since then on the screen), cooed in Manhattan: "I think kindness is the most important thing in a person. Gee, when anybody does anything nice for me I just about fall flat on my face. Every time I even smile at a man any more the papers have me practically married to him. Outsiders don't understand about things. If I ever get married again, and I probably will, some time, I'll marry an actor, at least that...
...Trail of an Artist-Naturalist, nature lovers could follow Seton's pattering spoor across 80 years, through the wilds of Canada, the studios of Paris, the publishing business of Manhattan. Young Seton grew up in Ontario. He wanted to be a naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with the sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...
...find English courses absolutely useless." He dropped a student from his class because "She's too young." To the rest he suggested plots, explained tricks of his trade, read and criticized 100,000 words of their writings. A co-ed exclaimed: "He tries to build up a person's imagination...