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...distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team, and a tennis star winning three letters in each of these four sports. A native Bostonian, he holds B.S. in education and an E.D.M. (master degree in physical education), both from...

Author: By Midshipman E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 2/18/1944 | See Source »

Reward Later. On a Boston-to-Philadelphia train, Bostonian Charles J. O'Malley found a wallet containing $1,000, returned it to its owner, was promised free service by a grateful undertaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Autocrat of the Confessional | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Wonderland's customers seem not to care. The admission price is cheap (25?), the atmosphere breezy, the races honest. Moreover, when a Bostonian "goes to the dogs," he knows he is salting away something for somebody's (if not his own) old age. The State of Massachusetts uses its dog-track "take" for its Old Age Pension Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To the Dogs | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Besides the usual barrage from WCOP and the Crimson Network, during this past weekend Bostonian and Cantabridgian music publics were subjected to two concerts which will rival any of the entire season in everything from novelty to richness of performance...

Author: By Charles R. Greenhouse, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

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