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Last week 46-year-old Ed Stettinius returned to the University of Virginia-as its 26th rector, a post whose first occupant was Founder Thomas Jefferson (1819-26). Virginia had long since rewarded its No. 1 alumnus by giving him an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The University of California added an honorary LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rector | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Altogether it was a bad week for the Democrats, but a great week for the precise-minded son of the nation's gusty 26th President. He had probably not grown in personal popularity among his fellow Republicans, but personal popularity is not the strength of cool, twang-tongued Bob Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Unabashed Conservative | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Last week Beaver girls, past & present, gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the school's charter and to learn whether there would be a 26th. There would be. Working like their namesakes, loyal Beavers had saved their school by raising $105,000 in three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Like Beavers | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...started on the 26th of August when our P.O.W. camp of 509 British, Dutch and a few Americans in the center of Japan's Northern Island was visited by four torpedo bombers from the U.S.S.Hancock. . . . They bombed us with food, tobacco, candy, TIME and LIFE, in sailor's kitbags addressed "To the men we have not forgotten." . . . The amazing cordiality, informality and fantastic speed with which we were clothed, fed, deloused, bathed, injected, inoculated and whizzed down here by Liberators and air transports, on occasion with nurses, was an epic of dynamic friendliness finding a way through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Thanks to Frankie Sirs: TIME [July 23] reports that Frank Sinatra got a cuffing from Stars & Stripes, which re sented disparaging cracks he had made about the shows put on by the Army's Special Services and the U.S.O. In the 26th of July issue, Stars & Stripes devoted the entire mail call section to G.I.s who agreed with Frankie that "If you can't give them a good show, then don't give them none at all." The "Sinatra Show" played here in Casa, and the crowd was so tremendous that two shows had to be scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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