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...Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot to remove their underwear. Coach Dyke Raese is a dead ringer for Hollywood's Humphrey Bogart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball, Pfd. | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...pressure on U.S. prices-especially consumer prices-is getting stronger every week. Plugged by the patriotic thumbs of 1,700,000 retailers, the dyke has kept consumers much drier than they may feel. Last week many a retailer prepared to rest his thumb, turn over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Is Yet to Come | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...election of officers, the Pierian Sodality last night chose Thomas I. Crowell, 3rd '43 for President. He will be assisted by Vice-President Melvin H. Wolf '43, Secretary Milton D. Van Dyke '44, and Treasurer Vernon H. Head '44. The new officers become active immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crowell Heads Pierian | 2/18/1942 | See Source »

Muenten, in 1906, was living the quiet life of a German instructor here. In best murder fiction tradition, he was harmless on the surface. He affected a scholarly stoop and a Van Dyke, and wore dingy, patched suits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Muenter, Once German Teacher Here, Killed Wife, Shot Morgan, Sabotaged in World War 1 | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: A Szechwanese Dies | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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