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...bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1944 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl, named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The baby's heart, faintly beating, lay on her chest, outside her body. Mrs. Rafael's friends, who thronged to the hospital, stoutly maintained that the baby's condition was due to Mrs. Rafael's daily adoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Heart | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...keep cool during their sweating, sweltering sessions each arriving delegate was handed a cardboard fan. On its face he found a gaudy chromo entitled "No. 528 Nature." On its back appeared the square, smiling countenance of Henry Lester Smith. 58, Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.). At the week's end grateful delegates elected Dean Smith their president for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unhappy Teachers | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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