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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skirling out of Iowa's tall corn fields, University of Iowa students have formed one of the most unique student musical organization in the U. S. Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit...
...always all his clothes would be one color...
Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Loverett continue to clothe their waitresses in black. Miss Murray, perennial guardian of the Union's gates, has also refused to allow herself to be swept away by a splash of color...
Last week Robert Marion Metcalf could congratulate himself on a big job well done, in the nick of time. A short, baldish, bustling American with a fringe-beard, he knows and loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf...
Turned down at Annapolis because of a crooked trigger finger, Dan became a civil engineer, spent the next five years getting in & out of trouble as a map maker for insurance companies through the South. When he went to Manhattan in 1878, sold a water color of a fish for $25, he decided "darned if I'd work any more...