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...fighting between the freshmen and sophomores is so disorganized and spontaneous, however. The annual "canespree" in October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...Good old Winnie," "Good luck, sir," cried the crowds that pressed in on him as Churchill, beaming broadly, smoking a huge cigar and jauntily swinging a cane, called last week at Buckingham Palace to submit his new cabinet to the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...treat two little girls, Martha Arellano, 7, and Lily Mendoza, 6, who have tuberculosis of the spine. Dr. Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Improvised Bone Bank | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...vaudeville, the burlesque stage comes alive. Six baggy-pants comedians put on a display of double takes, dance steps and routines, a chorus line reminiscent of the Old Howard girls parades across the stage, and a strip tease dancer bumps and grinds. Silvers relives his former role, complete with cane and straw hat, singing, mugging and thoroughly enjoying himself. And the audience enjoys itself...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/27/1951 | See Source »

...smiling, bespectacled little man in a baggy white suit and a battered Panama hat stepped unobtrusively off a silver Pan American airliner at the Honolulu airport one day last week. Leaning on his cane, Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida bowed and shook hands all around with the American greeters who towered above him, spoke politely about the "loyalty and bravery" of American-born Japanese, and cast no more than a sweeping glance at the skeletal cranes and hangars of Pearl Harbor. Then he took off again, heading for San Francisco to sign the formal peace between Japan and 51 powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Matter of Days | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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