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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been suffering for some time from a throat ailment which, he believes, was caused by 55 hours of uninterrupted emergency work during the hurricane of September, 1938. Careful nursing has brought his health back to the point where a measure of hoarseness is all that's wrong with him, and even this will be gone, he expects, by springtime, when he will have to use his voice to utter stentorian "break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED WILL "DIE IN TRACES" BEFORE RESIGNING HIS POST | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

Other lettermen returning from the squad which finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speedy Courtment, Unbalanced Swim Squad Seen for Lions | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

Another Thin Man is the third working.* Shot in 36 days with extreme care by the same producer and director, again using a script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Angeles, John H. Mills, 70, classed as physically unfit, pleaded with the school board to give him back his job, said, "I'm as sound and healthy as I ever was . . . ," so saying, fell dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Radcliffe sentiment was proven to have shifted back this year to a true appreciation of Harvard men as "escorts," "lovers," and "paramours," when the results of a poll on the respective merits of the swains of the Big Three colleges and M.I.T. were released yesterday afternoon...

Author: By David DONALD Peddle, | Title: "Radcliffe Hearts Belong to Harvard" Is Indicated by Poll of Shepard Street | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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