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Following the custom of recent years, donations of the 25th anniversary class of Harvard College, which makes a special donation to Harvard, were omitted from the Fund Council figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORD NUMBER OF ALUMNI BOOST FUND | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Custom-made from the last kit of carburetor wrenches in its Winnipeg shop to its corps of well-drilled, 9540-125 Ib. hostesses, Trans-Canada Air Lines is piloted by 40 veteran Canadian airmen who were instructed for a year by U. S. airline veterans. First scheduled night flights last week followed a course that had an emergency field every 35 miles, a major airport with radio range every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New and Good | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...same day at 1:30 in the afternoon the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals . . . will enter in a procession in the order of seniority into the conclave, where all the rest will be performed according to custom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: According to Custom | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Dueling is no longer a college custom even at Heidelberg, but at tiny Blue Ridge College in New Windsor, Md., Freshmen George Deaton and George List stole into the college gymnasium one dawn last week, began to make grim preparations. While the two freshmen stripped to the waist, companions found a pair of French fencing épées, pulled off the protective tips, sterilized the points. Business: a duel. Challenger: Freshman List. Prize: the favor of a blonde Blue Ridge co-ed known as "Little Miss America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blue Ridge Duel | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Love Match | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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