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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduation has taken a heavy toll of the bright lights of last year's team, with only two veterans, Alva Sulloway '38, and Captain Richard M. Dorson '37 back this winter. Ace polletman Glidden will be a great loss, and Cowles is depending on many of last year's winning Freshman team to fill in the gaps. Coming up from these ranks will be George B. Blake '39, Francis H. Appleton 3rd '39, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Jr. '39 and James English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH COMPETITION GETS UNDER WAY TODAY | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

...From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Master piece | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...inside the five, has to have something besides inspired fight, and any team that can stage two marches of 41 yards and 87 yards through the air and through the line has to have something besides "prayer passes", and on the basis of their work Saturday the future looks bright indeed for the Harvard squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Harvard Squad Earns Tie With Princeton; "Inspired Play," Says Crisler | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

During his three days in Washington Hugh Bullock contributed two historical notes to the SEC study. Having suggested that future legislation be confined to banning deals between trusts and trust officials, insuring voting rights to stockholders, guaranteeing "the bright sunlight" of publicity through detailed quarterly reports in standardized form, the well-dressed young banker declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bullock in Washington | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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