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Paced by the perfect performances of Elaine Fraser and Arthur Cantor in a Harvard-Radcliffe team of six men and two women yesterday outspelled a similarly composed Oxford aggregation in a radio bee broadcast over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLIES IN FOURTH ROUND TO WIN RADIO BEE | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

After turning the last page of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee," the reader does not find himself equipped with a mass of data ready to be incorporated in a lecture on Sir John Squire. He finds, rather, an impression of the man, and with this an intimacy with contemporary English men of letters, and indeed men in every walk of his life, for the book does not alone with the writers. Perhaps the work is not of great lasting value, because it may not be great, but certainly it is of intense interest, and significant for its change from...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed stretchers, did the survivors reach the town Hohsien. There they were picked up some 36 hours later by the Oahu and the British gunboat Bee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Regrets | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: A Great Mistake | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

With Saul Lancourt, former assistant director of the Chautauqua Opera Association, as production manager, and with professional adult actors, dancers and singers, Junior Programs this season is producing two operas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee Prince; two ballets with accompanying narrative, Pinocchio and The Princess and the Swineherd, written for this project; one play, The Reward of the Sun God, by John Louw Nelson. Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians. By far the most popular are the ballets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Purer Piping | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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