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No! Crossing Harvard Square should be one of the keenest delights of the clear-eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

The radio fans who visited Keith's this week to have a look at Phil Baker and his stooges were overpowered when presented with real talent such as Jack Whiting and Mitzi Mayfair. After appearing with Baker in the recent "Calling All Stars," they have accompanied him on his vaudeville...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

Sly little "Sacha" Stavisky was not a man to confide in women. No serious student of the case has ever suggested that the girl who was once the best-looking model at Chanel's and who loyally bore him two children in the face of his impudent infidelities knew anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hospital Happiness | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

East View, N. Y.-Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.-Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leucemia | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

A genuine advance in the teaching of these subjects would result were the student allowed to take text books or at least formula cards into the exam room. Mathematical subjects are not mastered overnight at the Widow's and these aids would prove a mental convenience rather than an intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HAPPY MEDIUM | 5/9/1934 | See Source »

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