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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson City, Tenn., a student at East Tennessee State Teachers College became suspicious last week when a strange, nervous boy turned up and said he was going to enroll. Police looked him over, found an automatic pistol in his car, got him to admit he was Junior Burgunder. He swore that all he knew of the Phoenix killings was what he had heard over the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...officers & men of the U. S. Navy hove in for the World's Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever admit it, John Husted then became "Lieut. Blish C. Hills, U. S. S. Anderson." On Riverside Drive by the Hudson, he strolled with others in blue, bandied glances with the passing girls, was casually curt with mere sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Officer of the Day | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Strings, woodwinds, and many brasses use vibrato; it is interesting to see a classical musician of Reiner's status admit that classical has something to learn from jazz...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

...Masters have agreed that as an experiment for the year 1939-40, each House will admit 10 to 12 Associate Members who will be give the privileges of the dining hall, common room, library, and extra-curricular activities of that House. Associates will be selected from the waiting lists of those who applied earlier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 654 Freshmen, Upperclassmen Get House Notification Today | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Orleans, Baron von Spiegel hastened to deny the whole story, admitted only that he had talked to a Tampa university "official" who "exceeded the bounds of courtesy," and that he might have suggested that the German Government would be willing to endow a German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Insult | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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