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...Leverett was fifth with 24. Adams sixth with 18, Dudley seventh with 12, and Dunster last with nine points. Although the commuters entered only one man, Arnold Gale '40, they managed to escape being last by dint of Gale's two first in the discus and in the hammer. Ash Trope, of the Elephant delegation equaled Gale's high-score mark when he won the relevant and javelin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Gain Easy House Track Title | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...town of As (pronounced Ash) lives Sudeten German Nazi No. 1, sharp-nosed, hard-lipped Führer Konrad Henlein. He secretly left As by motorcar last week, sped over the Czechoslovak frontier into Germany, entered a waiting plane and presently alighted on the asphalt of London's great airport Croydon. Several times before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Freiwilliger Schutzdienst | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Eight first Freshman oarsmen whipped brand new oars into the choppy Charles yesterday afternoon in a 9-mile workout to the dam and back. Said stroke Wagner of the shiny ash blades: "They're too whippy to have a hard catch. But they're made by Pocock for $20 apiece so they ought to be all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS SWEEP NEW ASHES | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pickled Snake's Tongue | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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