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...hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled by a 52-lobe irregular cam which is designed to deal a pack into hands of the ideal random type in four seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I58,753,000,000 to 1 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member of the first Federal Reserve Board. James first saw light in Germany 36 years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Couch & Coach | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Riseman, Dorchester, Mass.; T. W. Robinson, Cambridge, Mass.; J. A. Ross, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.; G. R. Russell, Milton, Mass.; F. J. Safler, San Francisco, Calif.; A. W. Samborski, Belmont, Mass.; Barnett Savery, Seattle, Wash.; J. S. Thomas, Quincy, Mass.; P. A. Tyko, Boston, Mass.; L. A. Walford, Cam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AWARDS MIDYEAR DEGREES TO 212 STUDENTS | 3/2/1933 | See Source »

Entraining tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from the South Station, the Varsity hockey squad, hoping to recover from the two stinging defeats administered by the MeGill sextet, will leave for New York, where the Crimson cam is to meet the Toronto University outfit tomorrow evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM TRAVELS TO ENCOUNTER TORONTO | 1/6/1933 | See Source »

...pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revival: Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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