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IRL TUBBS, new football coach at the University of Iowa, is a short, bald 49-year old native of Kentucky, who may shortly be known among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

The resurrection of the "Harvard Monthly" and the founding of the more specialized "Harvard Guardian" suggest a thorough examination of college publishing by undergraduates of a literary turn of mind. Backers of the vested interests along; Mount Auburn Street are most vitally affected, for the periodical trade will feel the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

All this the elastic-minded spectator gladly accepts, but the quality of the lines in a bafller. At first they seem to be simply pedestrian, and lame at that. But a glance at the notes assures us that they are "deliberate and caluclated naivetics." That they are so intended we...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

Industries Fair and pulling up his trouser leg to reveal that he wears British garter-less, elastic-top socks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grand Dame, Grand King | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

If the social cross-section is to be concentrated upon, the Houses should be made as attractive as possible to the maximum number of groups. It has been the most constant complaint, coming strangely enough from both sides, that the men from Eton and Harrow by their yearly desertion deal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "YE WHO ENTER HERE" | 5/12/1936 | See Source »

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