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Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their rooms without a chaperon only if there are two or more ladies present. The House Masters may make exceptions in special cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Codifies Regulations Governing Reception Of Women Guests In Houses, Clubs | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...from female to male. An operation was performed and onetime Zdenka Koubkova was pronounced a man. Although he still crosses his legs and shows his ankle like a woman, Zdenek Koubek has sturdy shoulders, big biceps, shaves. He is one of the two cases which worry-ridden Avery Brundage, chaperon of the U. S. Olympic athletes in Berlin, had in mind when he demanded examination for sex ambiguities in all women competitors (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Sex | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

They go out to the barn to inspect a sound-recording gadget he has invented while the pressagent-chaperon anxiously asks: "Is there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...third, a pretty Polish girl was asked so many sexy questions that she hired a chaperon to accompany her to "radio college." When her course was completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Be a Star | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been helping get the Herald into Washington's front doors instead of through the back. Chicago's social press dean is Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst's Herald & Examiner are assisted by able socialite reporters. Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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