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Headed by President Conant, a large number of College officials, including the ubiquitous Colonel Charles R. Apted '03, presented a meerschaum amber pipe to John Skehan yesterday morning in commemoration of 50 years of service in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PRESENTS MEERSCHAUM TO WORKER | 3/5/1935 | See Source »

They did not. As the months passed everyone in Athens heard that the gangster responsible for the attack was one Georgios Karathanasios. He continued to loaf around Athens cafés puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Eureka! | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...coeur," "Désir," "Garde moi dans tes bras," "Parle moi d'autre chose, " "Moi j'crache dans I'eau," "Ballade." The songs have wide variety but Lucienne Boyer's stage costume is always the same: deep blue velvet for which she chooses blue or amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes, full red lips. Her private wardrobe is more fantastic. She has so many dresses that she need never wear the same one twice in a year. Her dresses are by Jeanne Lanvin and Rochas, her hats by Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Parisienne | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Central who lives in Chicago. Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Leonor Fresnel Loree of Delaware & Hudson, Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central all left their luxurious "office" cars behind to save money, make a good impression. In the gold and amber club rooms of the Hotel Traymore they, and 61 other railroad presidents and chairmen, sat down behind closed doors to discuss ways & means of extracting more money from the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroad Week | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Necklaces of amber to prevent and cure goiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedies | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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