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...annual Lampoon-CRIMSON ball game, originally scheduled for 2:30 o'clock today, was postponed until Thursday late last night when Lampy president W. Russell Bowie (rhymes with "roue") called from Stillman to say that the entire 'Poon team was laid up with pulled calf muscles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S FEBRILITY FORCES CRIMSON TO POSTPONE BASEBALL FRACAS | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...months ago even that effort was made easy. On the market appeared Clapp's Rennet Desserts in six flavors (vanilla, chocolate, lemon, orange, raspberry, maple). Price: 15? a package. Chief ingredients: sugar, calcium, salt, skim milk and rennet (an enzyme from a calf's fourth stomach). Children took to the new desserts, did not mistake them for spinach. Last week, because of its booming sales, Clapp broke ground for a new $250,000 addition to its model Rochester plant-a 50% increase in floor space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOODS: Tin Can Mother | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Seventeen (Paramount). In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...with attacks on the New Deal shrewdly keyed to the mood of the section where they were to be delivered. Political success of Candidate Dewey to date has been less that of a veteran campaigner than that of the fabled strong man who began by lifting a new born calf, hoisted it each day as it grew until he was able to lift a full-grown bull, with bystanders waiting for the day when Dewey's success, growing faster than he did, would finally floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Up the Mountain | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Hours later, a white, shaken Jim Steward left the hospital, went home. Jessie would live, but both legs had been amputated, one at the calf, the other above the knee. The music still went round and round but Jessie could never dance again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Heroine | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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