A play that satirized America’s enthusiasm for war—Strike Up the Band—was loved by critics but spurned by audiences when it opened in Philadelphia in 1927. Written by George S. Kaufman, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, the play had the pedigree for success, but audience...
(Philadelphia Museum of Art) * * * Master of Masters The founder of perhaps the world’s most prestigious golf tournament was an amateur and a working lawyer by profession. When Bobby Jones (1902–1971) co-founded the Masters Tournament in 1934 with investment dealer Clifford Robert, it was...
PHILADELPHIA -- Vernon W. Hill 2d got his first taste of banking while he was studying finance as an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1960s.Newman, A. Joseph, Jr
that circles would be merely expressive of neo-liberal individualist consumer culture or retrograde gender essentialism, the paper argues they can be viewed as sites of sisterhood, solidarity, and dissent, cultivating a new type of femininity grounded in both affirmative and more oppositional forms of...
In Plants and people: Choices and Diversity Through Time; Chevalier, A., Marinova, E., Peña-Chocarro, L., Eds.; Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK; Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2014; pp. 343–353. ISBN 9781842175149. [Google Scholar] Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions and data ...
Sandile Ngcobo, a 56-year-old jurist who studied law at Harvard and worked in a Philadelphia law firm, was named chief justice on Thursday. 5PM 30 SepWorld Briefing | Africa: Nigeria: Rebel Leader Accepts Amnesty (Africa)A top rebel commander agreed Thursday to halt fighting in the Niger ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this pretty biting comment: "Now, you may be saying, 'There he goes again, that elitist toad.' But believe me, even Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly would think this show was stupid." 2019: The Masked Singer Since the...
DUBNER:Right. So, keeping in mind that 5 percentaverageincrease in homicides — some of the cities I’m looking at in these data have amuch larger year-over-year increase: Philadelphia, up 23 percent; Chicago, up 34 percent; New York City, up 23 percent; New Orleans, up 36 percent....
the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time, and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street.[94] By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States....
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