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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed., inscribed ("in bull's blood") to "Garbage-Bird" Benchley, and with "each blank in the text where Scribner's had blushed and put a dash" filled in by Author Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worms' Turns | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano and Zurich before going to France. He concentrates on a young man's program (Schubert 8th, Beethoven 1st) and although I had no chance to see or hear him, I was very reliably informed that he conducted it very well...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Enclosed Practice Field 2 P.M. Varsity Soccer Business School Field 2 P.M. Freshman Soccer Business School Field 2 P.M. HARVARD HOUSE vs. YALE COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES Kirkland vs. Calhoun (championship game) Freshman Field 2:30 P.M. Lowell vs. Pierson Field Next to Stadium 2:30 P.M. Adams vs. Saybrook 1st House Field 1:45 P.M. Dunster vs. Berkeley 1st House Field 3:15 P.M. Leverett vs. Timothy Dwight 2nd House Field 2:30 P.M. Eliot vs. Stillman 3rd House Field 1:45 P.M. Winthrop vs. Davenport 3rd House Field 3:15 P.M. TOUCH FOOTBALL Leverett vs. Pierson (championship game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schedule of Events for the Gala Weekend | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

Like all of Graves's historical novels, this one is told through a contemporary or nearly contemporary mouthpiece. The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D. Agabus-Graves's information on religious and political matters in ancient Palestine greatly exceeds anything the 20th Century possesses. He loses no time in flatly telling the 20th Century reader a number of things he never heard before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Heresy, New Version | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Boston 8, New York 0 (1st game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Scores | 9/27/1946 | See Source »

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