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...Yale News, which has been demanding contracts and greater security for Elf coaches called Harvard's plan a hold step, but declared "we are happy that the changes are taking place at Harvard, not at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mal Stevens Calls Conant Athletic Plan "Ideal For Yale," Scores "Business Policy" in Eli Sport | 4/13/1935 | See Source »

...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Easy Abdication | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Next day the 11-year-old elf, asked by his mother whether he would like to be King, replied in the Siamese tradition, "Just as you like, Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Easy Abdication | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Berkeley College, latest addition to the Yale Gothic collection, has been dubbed "The Great White Way" by Elf's men. For a short time it was called "Times Square" because of its network of tunnels. But this was changed when darkness fell upon the buildings. Now a battery of floodlights, augmented by several brilliant advertising signs from local emporiums, have occasioned the rechristening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bulldoggers' Broadway | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...could easily write two novels a year, fills in his time by writing children's books. With his second wife he moves restlessly about the world; at present they are in Portugal. "Dark as a gypsy, nervous as a cat," he talks flippantly, fluently - "a sort of thinking elf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ozarks | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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