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...sisters, crooners, lawyers, or what have you. Us four are going to stick together through thick and thin, but the eternal triangle turns into a quadrilateral, and many embarrassing situations and mutual seductions occur. Still, all does end happily, and we clinch in the living room of our rich benefactor, just overcome with the prospect of a little white cottage in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE METROPOLITAN | 5/19/1934 | See Source »

...statue is wholly an imaginary likeness of the first benefactor of the University, after whom it was named. No picture of John Harvard was extant at the time French began his sculpture, so he selected a student thought to resemble the founder, dressed him in Puritan garb, and used him as a model. The statue was the gift of Samuel James Bridges. It stood originally in the delta west of Memorial Hall, but in 1924 it was moved to its present location in the Yard--according to one theory, in order to keep all light out of the Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Harvard's Fiftieth Anniversary Approaches | 3/13/1934 | See Source »

...sports page panic. The Chicago Tribune ran a banner headline on an A. P. story which contained the first news about an alumni committee appointed to find a new football coach. Five of the committee apparently favored hiring Kipke. The Tribune brought the name of Yale's famed Benefactor Edward S. Harkness into the controversy but failed to give his opinions on Coach Kipke. In Boston. Sports Columnist Bill Cunningham sagely decided that Coach Kipke would find Yale material feebler than that to which he had been accustomed at Michigan. The New Haven Journal-Courier revealed that one Ivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pother | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...President enjoyed an amiable visit from Brown Derby Democrat John J. Raskob, a Warm Springs benefactor who had gone South to hear Trustee Roosevelt accept a new administration building and dining hall for the sanitarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Front Seat | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Last week President Roosevelt did not forget his promise to Catherine Murphy. He arranged for her to start for Warm Springs, Ga. There she was to meet again her friend and benefactor, for the President had arrived at Warm Springs for his annual Thanksgiving fortnight of rest and treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Tories & Thomases | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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