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Just before he went overseas in 1918 (to serve with the 3O2nd Infantry, 27th Division), Harry White married Russian-born Anne Terry, a student at Pembroke College in Providence. A Phi Beta Kappa and later a successful author of children's books (e.g., Prehistoric America, Lost Worlds, Three Children and Shakespeare), Anne Terry White became an intense "liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Greed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Social Sciences 1 was 12th, with 370 students; Social Sciences 3 was 21st, with 241 students; 25th was Humanities 3, with a total of 235 students; Nat. Sci. 6 was 27th with an even 200; Nat. Sci. 4 was 31st, with 189; Nat. Sci. 1 was 32nd, with 172; and Soc. Sci. 5 was 35th, with 155 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College's Most Popular Course Is Humanities 2 | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

...strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England, the Channel, the coast of France. Hungry, he munches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Epic | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...York's photogenic Mayor Vincent ("Impy") Impellitteri celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary by posing behind a double-deck cake with his wife Betty, and bussing her in a manner that would do him no harm in the city's forthcoming free-for-all mayoralty contest. That done, he and Betty, herself no slouch at politics, went off to the next event: opening up a "Women for Impy" headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...marine doesn't mind being lambasted if it comes from the right source. But we don't like it coming from the 27th Army Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

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