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Married. Pfc. Derick Vanderbilt Webb, 30, fifth-generation descendant of famed dynast Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Elizabeth Bigelow Canfield, 19, young est child of the late socialite Manhattan lawyer George Folger Canfield; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...most were headed for field jobs, mainly in aviation. They serve on ground crews, work as aerographers and photo graphic technicians, gunnery and flying-instrument trainers, operate control tow ers, pack parachutes, drive trucks. Quaint est note of all: women buglers have released the famous Marine "field musics" for combat trumpeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Leathernecks | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Inefficiency Expert. The almost patho logically detached Leonardo also served the most bloodthirsty power politician of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. Leonardo was Borgia's military engineer, with no inter est whatever in politics. There exist some remarkable maplike bird's-eye views of the Italian terrain which Leonardo drew for Borgia's ill-fated campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tribute to Gicmthood | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...having received the Doctor of Laws in Sanders Theatre Jeffre went to the Stadium where an hysterical crowd of 30,000 people had gathered to see the famous general. Following a brilliant review of the Harvard ROTC, the Marshal was heard to whisper a brief but sincere enlogy, "C'est magnifique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Eighth Foreign Leader To Be Awarded Doctor of Laws | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Nevertheless, barbarian that he is, he's right. Look at the state of Harvard today. Babies in the Yard can be born, or even clotheslines, after all, e'est laguerre. But ask a Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

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