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Said Pfc. Jack Loeb of Elkins Park, Pa., who had gone to the Conference to see "what we were fighting for": "If it was me, I'd just tell them all to go to hell." As the delegates disputed, he whispered: "Why don't they just take a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Exasperation | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

The flat-as-a-flounder moccasins and sandals affected by adolescent girls are just as bad as the high heels worn by their ex-flapper mothers. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Earl C. Elkins warned the jitterbugs that if they keep on wearing the flat flats, their arches will eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flat Foot | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

An Overseers' committee in 1867 attempted to raise $150,000 for a new library. To Sibley, the "excitement" about the proposed building was "a great strain on my nerves." There was much more than "strain" connected with the "Titanic" tragedy which caused the death of Harry Elkins Widener, from whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Formerly A Reading Room, Library Now Big Business | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

Died. Charles D. Barney, 101, one of the last of the ruling lions of the post-Civil War financial and speculative jungle, onetime clerk in Jay Cooke's famed banking house who married Cooke's daughter, went into partnership with his son, established an internationally known Philadelphia banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

R.N.Z. NAVY: Booth, f.b.; Green, r.w.; Thompson, l.w.; Hodgkins, 3/4; Elkins, 3/4; Morris, s.o.h.; Cosford, s.h.; Murley, f.; Caeder, f.; Prouse, f.; Kear, f.; Knowles, f.; Evans, f.; Henderson, f.; Tippins, f.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS IN RUGBY, 17-5 | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

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