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Today at 5 o'clock at the Harvard Union. Tau Beta Pi of the Engineering School will hold its initiations. The Initiates are: Comfort Avery Adams, S. B., E.E., D.Eng., Abbot and Lawrence Professor of Engineering, C. J. Hooper '29, G. McD, Ide '29, M. H. MacKusick '29, and M. B. Nunlist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tau Beta Pi Initiates | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

Readers of the Christian Science Monitor, who have grown to trust the judgment and admire the style of its Contributing Editor, Willis J. Abbot, gaped aghast at what he had cabled to London as correspondent for Britannia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Correspondent Willis J. Abbot introduced into his cable such recondite or non-existent U.S. slang phrases as "spot the lady." Cabled he: "The peoples of the United States are today busily engaged in trying to 'spot the lady' in the most puzzling presidential election that has ever taken place in the North American continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Candidate Hoover was described by Willis J. Abbot as "a stocky blond . . . who always wears a Derby hat!"?although he almost never wears one, and although even morons know that the "Derby" is the symbol of Candidate Smith. Incidentally the picture of Candidate Hoover published by Britannia showed him soft-hatted. Willis J. Abbot added that Herbert Hoover "looks like a 'Herb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Finally Correspondent Willis J. Abbot informed unsuspecting Britons that Candidate Smith is "more nursed and shepherded and handled than Royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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