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Sidney Lovett, 68, chaplain of Yale University, is many things to many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Uncle Sid | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Professors F. P. Magoun, Jr., for aid in editing the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni, recension, J-3; John Tucker Murray, (for the Department of English) for a volume in the series of Harvard Studies in English; C. R. Post, for aid in gathering further material for the fourth volume of "History of Spanish Painting"; E. K. Rand, for assistance on Volume H of "A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours", on a book on Virgil's influence on later literature, on an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, on a volume to succeed "Founders of the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESEARCH FUNDS ARE ALLOTTED TO 24 HARVARD MEN | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...ALEXANDRI MOSS WHITE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE HAS WELL USED LIBRARY | 12/4/1930 | See Source »

...Death, come to arrange a three-day holiday for himself in the guise of a human being. The trembling noble can scarcely refuse to be a secretive host, and so it happens that Death appears among the other ducal guests as His Serene Highness, Prince Sirki of Vitalba Alexandri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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