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...general conditions are really as black as Mr. Tunis paints them, what of Harvard? Fortunately Harvard's slate appears to be clean, for instead of having to lure coy students to Cambridge, University Hall is at pains to limit the enrolment each year so that the teaching staff and, more important, the dormitory space in the Houses, will not be flooded. As long as this situation prevails, it is obvious that whatever agents the University may send around the country to interview students, especially those applying for scholarships, and to explain to the public in general the intricacies and formalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISING | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...significance of Senator Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis to testify against two politicians who last spring attacked and beat him in a corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Minton for McNutt | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Engaged-Norman Selby ("Kid Mc-Coy"), 63, onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy to those who woo her with too slavish knees...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

...Duce, a mutual pact of Italo-Yugoslav solidarity. This can be followed by rapid extension of what Premier Mussolini and General Goring call "the Rome-Berlin Axis," making it a ramrod of Power shooting eastward through the Balkans, with Bulgaria already lined up and Rumania not too coy to the seductions of Dr. Schacht and his German trade treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Important Turning Point | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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