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...crew will line up with Alexander Comstock as stroke, Jim Tyson 7, Phil Dean 6, John Senior 5, Peter Burr 4, George Overton 3, Buzz Hovey 2, Dave Scull bow, and Alan Fox coxswain. Comstock, Burr and Overton are the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Freshman, Six Varsity Men Make Combination Crew | 6/4/1937 | See Source »

...Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!", is therefor sentenced to perpetual imprisonment at sea with no word from home. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hale's short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Man Without a Country | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

ADAMS: S. W. Thaxter, bow; L. S. Johnson, No. 2; A. T. Enos, No. 3; J. J. Colony, No. 4; S. S. Stanton, No. 5; I. T. Burr, III, No. 6; A. L. Derby, No. 7; W. P. Rogers, stroke; Perkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEACONS GAIN STRAUS TROPHY OVER LOWELL | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

...again in the chairman's seat of what looked like a full-size International Conference of the sort he loved so well as British Prime Minister. Once more, and perhaps for the last time, the imposing Locarno Room of the Foreign Office echoed to his noble Scottish burr. Mr. MacDonald today holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Important for Democracy | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

After morning calls upon Governor Hurley, Mayor Mausfield of Boston, and Cardinal O'Connell, the Count will be the guest of honor at a luncheon at the home of President Conant. Attending the luncheon will be the presidents of the local colleges; and Gaspar G. Bacon, '08, Allston Burr, '89, and Leverett Saltonstall,' '14, Overseers; Roger I. Lee, '02, and Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr., '17, of the Corporation; Dean George H. Chase, '96, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dean Hanford, '17, Harvard College; Professor-Emeritus Blise Perry; Professor Kenneth R. Murdock, '16; and Professor Robert P. Blake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNT POTOCKI GUEST AT CONANT'S FOR LUNCH | 4/14/1937 | See Source »

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