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...Fewest letters in a major sport went to Varsity track men, five of whom qualified; Howard A. Cook '37, Robert Haydock, Jr. '39, Winslow L. Pettingel '38, William H. Schmidt, 2nd '37, captain, and Charles W. Hubbard, 3rd '37, manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER AWARDS GIVEN 11-SCORE SPORTSMEN | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

According to the rules the prize will go to "the person cleaving the course (the face) in the fewest number of strokes without incurring too many of the stated penalties for chopping off an ear lobe, or without, in a pitch of enthusiasm, severing the entire head from his body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Be Represented In Chin Golf Championship | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

Plenty of pretty girls in the fewest possible clothes was the formula which made Fort Worth, Tex.'s Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Bride of the Lion | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Among all the third-party candidates destined to be defeated and forgotten in next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Chevrolet Campaign | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...fronts along which the President has attacked Depression, the housing sector has been the scene of fewest victories, most defeats. Impressive headlines have heralded impressive programs which have quickly petered out in obscure failure. Congress has passed laws and the Treasury has passed out millions but the heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Whole Hog | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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