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Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Gave What Was Not His To Give--But for Christmas | 12/17/1942 | See Source »

From India came Jack Belden, now completely recovered from the hardships of the Burma campaign and his long trek across the mountains and jungles with General Stilwell. From America came Photographer Eliot Elisofon, now in Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

For the Elephant eleven the backfield trio of Chenoweth, Dorsey, and Coe, directed by quarterback Blackeby, led the defense. In the line guard Jack Corrigan stood out with his fine defensive play.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies House Champions After 7-0 win Over Eliot | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

Last week the Spaniard was bidding for the year's prize white elephant, William Randolph Hearst's $500,000 dismantled Spanish monastery. Marked down to a mere $19,000, it involved an important joker: the buyer must cart it away. Even to a nearby site, the freight would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boom In Old Masters | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

A full-dress patriotic campaign to keep farmers from'planting even the legal acreage of wheat was launched last week by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. He was too tactful to say that war has turned the 55,000,000-acre minimum allotment fixed by law into a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Unpatriotic Wheat | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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