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...this takes place will be exceptional but not unique for its lecturing activity. A banner season for lectures, the winter of 1937-38 will see about 200 authors giving 10,000 lectures to audiences of approximately 2,000,000 listeners-not counting the performances of magicians, mimes, dancers, mystics, chalk-talk artists and world travelers who still do business with lantern slides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Authors to the Road | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Nothing is known of the strength of the Brown team, but on the basis of its wins in the past two weeks, the Cantab cagers are expected to chalk up their fourth victory of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY, '41 CAGERS MEET BRUINS TONIGHT | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

Captain Johnny Harkness, most powerfully built matman, kept his slate clean until he was crushed by Ross Shaffer of Penn State in February. Inventive, a dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse and foot, they found 16 passengers, two pilots and a stewardess dead in the snow-covered wreckage-worst airplane accident in U. S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 1937's Fifth | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...gathered for an annual conference, 800 priests and nuns heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation. And then Father LeBuffe went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers & Lollypops | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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