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At week's end authorities at hundreds of U.S. colleges had begun to react almost like early settlers anticipating an Indian attack. The director of women's residence halls at Indiana University hopefully set out a barrelful of female undergarments in the hope that males would help themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Girls! Girls! Girls! | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Old Jelly Roll did not originate it all. But his legacy-a barrelful of folk-flavored tunes and a riffling, hard-breaking piano style that has influenced long-hair and shorthair musicians alike for a generation-almost merits him his own accolade:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mister Jelly Roll | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Juvenile Jury (Sun. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). A barrelful of bright little monkeys - and sometimes as much fun.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Mrs. Henry Ford told the Atlantic City Convention of the Women's National Farm & Garden Association how she had made good on a promise to send a barrelful of dried apples to England. Said she: "We don't have hot kitchens like they did fifty years ago, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Freddy Fitzsimmons is fat and one year short of 40. Yet in this, his 16th year of big-league baseball, he has pitched the Dodgers to twelve victories (and only two defeats), the best 1940 pitching average in the National League. Because he recently joined the select circle of pitchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unpredictable Dodgers | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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