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Abovestairs in his elegant Manhattan saloon, the Stork Club, ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley moves with exquisite aplomb. He is the Ward McAllister of café society. He dispenses a magnum of champagne to a favorite here, a fleeting, boyish smile to an attractive décolletage there. And he gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

After Blue forward Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees, Freshmen Nudge Over Eli; Booter Outfits Held to Slim Defeat | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Shabby overcoats concealing two-days' growth of beard, Yale game tickets, and slippery fingers with a penchant for buying cheap and selling dear, were in fleeting evidence on Cambridge pavements yesterday afternoon.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unseen Lines of Battle Form with Ticket Scalpers on Warpath Romp | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

¶ In Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Charting a decisive middle-way between the Hundred Great Books extreme at St. John's and strict vocationalist preparation on the other side of the Education Axis, the College's General Education Program is, despite the condescension of the Hutchins coterie, an inherently original venture.. Like all pioneer endeavors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the College | 5/27/1947 | See Source »

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