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...past years, the Crimson had trouble in getting its team into good playing order for these games. Soldiers Field was always frost-bound longer than the fields at Yale and Princeton, and the ruggers had to content themselves with constricted practices inside Brigg's Cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/1/1951 | See Source »

...only other heist in Harvard's history occurred some 20 years ago when a person or persons unknown pilfered a little strong box from Dean Brigg's desk, took it to a nearby men's room and pried it open. There was only five or so dollars in it, so clearly this cannot be the exploit recounted by the King of the Safecrackers

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...have always maintained that address should be changed, and here is a substantiating case. Coming from Brigg's Cage last Monday, Lt. Salmon discovered an apprentice seaman in the center of the field, equipped with duffel bag, typewriter, and other accessories of "Haavaad" war. After all, his orders did say "Soldiers Field," and orders are orders, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

Surmounting this impressive barrier is undoubtedly what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Last week another John Gay, a Wisconsin politician, made a slurring speech at Waukesha. At a Republican rally where 2,300 citizens were assembled, John Brigg Gay, tall, slender, military, a champion marksman, popular with his fellow War veterans, got up to explain why he should be elected to Congress- a job for which he was defeated two years ago. G. O. Partisan Gay spoke for a full hour, while John Chapple. Republican nominee for Senator (see above), waited his turn and the crowd grew restive. The interminable flow of oratory went on until suddenly Nominee Gay had everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sacred Subject | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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