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...major change in Administration policy is decided upon. But with the glorification of the Professor into a public figure, the immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word and yet remain readily accessible for students or the public to tap the vast fountain of knowledge that is surely there. There was great danger that Professor Frankfurter, with the necessary anonymity that must cloak anyone who enters carefully hooded against the press, both the White House and Hyde Park by the side door, would soon vanish into the clouds and become an "informed source...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNVEILING THE UNTOUCHABLE | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain of youth once sought by Ponce de Leon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Bloomington, Ind., freshman Charles L. Templin sold fountain pens to earn his way through Indiana University. Police arrested him when they found the pens were stolen from the university bookstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...your pen doesn't work, I have a supply of living fountain points that have a faculty of injecting formic acid which has a soothing property. I offer you 8,000,000 ants to distribute in troublemaking pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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