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...Dave Kelley tallied two goals to give his team a 3 to 1 lead with several minutes remaining in the game. Yardling center Mike Graney brought the freshmen to within one goal of the Bruins, but the strong Brown defense held the Crimson skaters at bay until the final Buzzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interim: Sweet and Sour Goulash | 2/5/1957 | See Source »

...including four Rolls-Royces-but he still charged his friends 5? for rides to school. From Groton and Yale he crossed the Atlantic to study history and literature at Oxford (a point which should help him in Whitehall). From his first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, and his second to Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, he was combining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Gifted Amateur | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...overall height by 3 in. to 57.2 in. in some models. Buick's engines will go up another 45 h.p. to 300 h.p. on all models except the low-priced Special series, which gets a 25-h.p. boost to 255 h.p. One new gadget: a "safety minder" buzzer, which can be set to remind drivers when they hit the speed limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Show Stoppers | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

World Without Mirrors. The first reaction of Gabrielle to the life of a nun was shock-the electric buzzer shrilled at 4:30 a.m. Another shock was the lack of privacy; each of 200 cells was semi-partitioned with thin cotton hangings, contained only a chair, a table and a straw pallet on wooden planks. It was a world without mirrors. There was sign language at meals to preserve silence. Down-hooked middle and index fingers said, "Fork, please"; two humble taps on the breast said, "Excuse me." One of the strange episodes was the shearing of the lambs: "Postulants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Failure | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Although this is not necessarily a Bad Thing, it must be remembered that noise is not necessarily a Good Thing. Already, Cambridge ears are be-labored by noise from running water in the morning, subways at night, and Lambrettas in between. Especially obnoxious is the Lamont bell-buzzer. Slick operating, inevitable, and indigenous to the "Lamont atmosphere," it is as well hated as anything at Harvard. Of similar pernicious tendencies, the constitutionalizing Lowell House Bell-Ringers must beware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gung-Ho Din | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

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