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...Leaguers, the member that somehow has managed to produce alumni of such varied types as Nathan Hale, William Howard Taft and Rudy Vallee. In the person of William Lyon Phelps, it has gushed through hundreds of women's clubs; and in Owen Johnson's fictional character of Dink Stover has fired the hearts of thousands of pre-Hopalong boys. It is the land of the Whiffenpoof, the Boola-Boola, the tables down at Mory's. Waggish non-Yalemen never seem to weary of calling "For God, for Country and for Yale" the outstanding single anticlimax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Dink Stover at Harvard," Michael Arlen adopts the style and, more specifically, the dialogue of the Stover-at-Yale series. In several very clever passages he tosses a few adroit barbs at the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Macy's put on sale the latest samples of Ben & Joe's scientific endeavor, a combination felt hat and ballpoint pen. There was a beanie for girls (the Pen 'n Dink, 69?), a Robin Hood hat for boys (the Alpen, 59?) and even a beret-style (with better felt) for adults ($1.69). All were rakishly decorated with a long feather tipped with a ballpoint pen. Benay-Albee has stepped up production to 180,000 feather hats a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Ben, Joe & the Kiddies | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Eenie meenie minie dink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissenter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Already, innocent high school seniors are doomed by the Princetonian. "The issue should be fresh enough in the minds of the Class of '51," it proclaims, "to insure that they will enforce dink-wearing on the Class of 1952 when it will do the most good...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Tiger Revives Internecine Cane Feuds, Battles Over Dink-Wearing | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

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