Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Seekers could, early this week (April 8), have found Dr. Welch seated with Herbert Hoover, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell and Director Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, on the stage of Memorial Continental Hall in Washington. He was fidgeting nervously, smiling sheepishly under a barrage of praise which was going out to scores of notables who sat peering at him from the audience, and to radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...
Musical ? EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS o' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON...
...appreciation, there last week appeared a quarterly titled USA. Its progenitors: "The group centering informally around the Centaur Bookshop ( Philadelphia)." Of the first edition, 2,000 copies were printed, price: $1 the copy. Lead-off article for Vol. 1 No. 1 was by Clifton C. Fadiman, editorial chief of Simon & Schuster (Manhattan publishers), contributor to The Nation. With lofty tolerance, he set about denning the Republic's culture and U S A's aim. Said he (italics...
...faculty of Harvard University and nine others, who hold degrees from Harvard were among the eighty-five scholars, novelists, poets, composers of music, sculptors, painters and other creative workers who have been awarded Fellowships amounting to more than $200,000 it was announced yesterday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The funds granted will be used by the Fellow to carry on research and creative work on four continents. The largest number will go to Europe but others will carry on their work in Latin America, Asia, the islands of the South Seas and Africa. The list includes sixteen...