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Heading the milers will be Paul Johrde, who broke the Freshman record for the 1,000 at Exeter this winter. Ted Graves, Fred Phinney, and Paul Cook will handle the half-mile, while Larry Corbett and Charley Tobias will compete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING TRACKSTERS TO MEET EXETER TEAM | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

Died. Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, 71, artist sister of the late great Poet William Butler Yeats; after brief illness; in Dublin. (News of her death reached the U. S. a month late, in a censor-delayed letter from her painter-brother Jack Butler Yeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Hubbard once toured ten weeks in vaudeville on the same bill with Lauder and Pugilist Jim Corbett. Chatting together one evening over a soft drink, Sir Harry wise cracked: "Mr. Hubbard is the only one of us who wears his make-up on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soap Man | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...most dangerous member of a dangerous family": the malaria mosquitoes. Native home of the gambiae is Central Africa, but about nine years ago they crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anopheles gambiae | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Eventually, after much suffering-more vividly dramatized by lack of milk for the baby than by mangled bodies-the Corbetts reach Brest. In an ending that crackles patriotically with high hopes for England, Mrs. Corbett and the children embark for Canada, Peter returns to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Cause For Alarm | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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