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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Derived from funds in its possession not allocated to other purposes, and consisting in part of a profit on the 1940 Red Book, $1000 has been set aside as an interest bearing savings account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL NAMES MERCER AS '41 AFFAIRS AIDE | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...about 15 years Mr. Widener has been administrator of Philadelphia's Wil-stach Fund, income from which must be used to buy paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cezanne, Cezanne | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Although it includes an exhaustive account of Marlowe's college years, largely based on the Cambridge "Buttery Book" that lists Marlowe's modest spendings for bread and beer, Christopher Marlowe reaches its high point in its account of the poet's death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marlowe Murder | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above the right eye and plunging two inches into the frontal lobe of a brain that had been, until that instant, as powerful, creative, original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marlowe Murder | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Football at Harvard came into its own early this season, and last Saturday serged to emphasize that fact. There is a great tendency in writing any account of that history making Yale game, to became indiscriminate in hysterical praise. But surely it is not too much to say that the team which has worked patiently under three years of inspired coaching, and has been led by a captain magnificient in his sportsmanship, earned its victory and all the praise that goes with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE THE TUMULT AND SHOUTING DIE | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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