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Said a salesman to a goateed fellow-traveler in a smoking car one day: "My line's skirts, what's yours?" Replied goateed, twinkling William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College: "That's my line, too." Smith's Neilson, 70, retires this month, after 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

"We do not adore these new pagan gods of the totalitarian states," he said, "but it is because we adore no gods at all. Secularism is a poor substitute for paganism."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EITHER RELIGION OR REVOLUTION"--BRUNNER | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

Off Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Fanny's letters never mention what she really thought of her lover's poetry, though on other literary subjects she is quite frank: "I go on as usual, reading every trumpery novel that comes in my way spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keats's Fannies | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Songs: The Sweetheart Waltz, I Adore Yon, So What? Rhyme for Love.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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